I find it amazing that people with a global, earth friendly view, are buying "organic" goods that are packaged in plastic. What is wrong with these companies? I don't necessarily blame the people, I blame the company.
Since the invention of plastic, plastic manufacturer's have always known since THE BEGINNING, that it is too expensive to recycle plastic, so it is not going to be done. But seeing as how there was money to be made, they still went ahead with it. Hence we have oceans full of the stuff.
But the manufacturer's of plastic have pacified us all, by chanting the mantra, "Recycle your plastic". Who? Who I ask you is actually doing the recycling?
MYTH - Creating new objects. Other than decking and fabricated lumber there really isn't much actual creating of new things going on on a large scale. Not all plastic is being re-man'd into new items. It takes a massive amount of energy (green house gasses on the rise) to render old plastic into soemthing new. It is VERY costly so almost no one is doing it.
Biodegradable plastics? No. They only break down into microplastics. So they still don't go away, but remain in our environment. I am sure you have heard the news stories about fish genetically having microplastics throughout their systems. And there was a news story about healthy pregnant women and their babies having microplastics in their little bodies, genetically passed on. (I don't have a link for that one, but you can look it up - just don't look at some fly-by-night "news" site. Use one of the actual NAB approved broadcast journalism sites. They are held to standards).
Some things are going to get a little bit more expensive if we start stepping away from plastics. But other things may become cheaper. Hopefully this journey will balance out in the long run, and ultimately benefit our planet.
