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Originally Posted by macafee2
You may be best placed her to give sound advice on what can be done.
Is paper bags and glass bottles a step in the right direction?
We can and must do better.
macafee2
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I will bow to Klarzy’s greater knowledge here but you have -from how I understand the issues - hit the nail on the head Ian.
Plastic is cheap and easy to produce - the issue is what we do with the excess we produce.
Paper can be made from recycled material but the original is made from wood pulp and the manufacturing process is chemical and energy intensive. It’s not a “clean” process by any means.
Anyone living downstream from an old paper mill in the past may well remember how the paper mill destroyed life in the rivers.
Glass manufacturing and recycling is also hugely energy intensive. Glass product manufacturing/recycling emits a huge amount of CO2.
And we cannot have that can we.
Despite the fact that our respiration takes in air with circa 0.04% CO2 and each breath we exhale contains about 3.8% to 5% depending upon how much exercise we are doing at the time.
So in the CO2 production stakes!! - we are ALL as guilty as he**.