Reply To: Climate Crisis: Our Last Chance
Can I be directed to a source that is saying that ALL uses of plastic should be banned.
It is the extensive use of throwaway plastic where alternatives exist which is the issue for environmentalists.
I have been to a beautiful cliff-top resort and when you first arrive you see from a distance white flowering bushes….until you get closer and see all these white plastic bags hanging from the bushes. A few hundred miles away another tourist spot has banned shops from using plastic and all kinds of ingenious and attractive packaging has arose.
But there is the hype.
“…Banning plastic bags is more about driving profits than saving the planet, a marketing expert says. University of Auckland head of marketing Bodo Lang said most companies wanted to be perceived as a “good corporate citizen” because it helped attract, and retain, customers and workers….”
However, even when plastic can be re-cycled, it still ends up in land-fill
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-wales-47238220
But my point was not about any lifestyle choice on the use of plastic but the glaring omission by such a global giant with a host of experts at their call not to include the re-usables in its calculations. This was surely not an accidental lapse but as I said a deliberate attempt to confuse the issue by creating fake facts. This is much more serious a transgression of science than any hyperbole you have previously pointed to, ALB. It is a study designed to deceive.