Gregory's ServerAs a reminder: The world is decarbonising. Oil and gas producers are nervous.
"That’s why the fossil fuel giants are looking towards petrochemicals, and plastics in particular, as their next major growth market.
“Plastics is the Plan B for the fossil fuel industry.”
https://www.cnbc.com/2022/01/29/how-the-fossil-fuel-industry-is-pushing-plastics-on-the-world-.html
The question is, are we going to let them unleash more toxic pollution into the place where we live?
Those unjacketed bananas packaged in styrofoam and a plastic film are an egregious example, but we consent to be poisoned in so many ways.
It doesn't have to be that way.
Even switching to a metal water bottle will save you from ingesting a ton of the smallest, most dangerous microplastics.
"The average liter of bottled water has nearly a quarter million invisible pieces of ever so tiny nanoplastics"
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/science/scientists-find-about-a-quarter-million-invisible-microplastic-particles-in-a-liter-of-bottled-water
Those unjacketed bananas packaged in styrofoam and a plastic film are an egregious example, but we consent to be poisoned in so many ways.
It doesn't have to be that way.
Even switching to a metal water bottle will save you from ingesting a ton of the smallest, most dangerous microplastics.
"The average liter of bottled water has nearly a quarter million invisible pieces of ever so tiny nanoplastics"