• PowerCrazy@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    Ban plastic. There is literally no other way. Nothing you do on an individual level will have the slightest bit of impact at all. Government has to treat plastic like Freon/DDT or any other chemical that was banned world-wide because of huge unexpected impact.

    • explodicle@local106.com
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      1 year ago

      They can’t ban literally all plastic; it’s irreplaceable in some medical applications.

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        1 year ago

        It’s irreplaceable in a lot of applications. There’s a reason we’re using so much of it. Even in applications where it can be replaced, doing so would result in burning more fuel to transport the other, heavier material, accelerating global warming. Lose-lose.

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        1 year ago

        It’s also likely an uneccessary nuclear response to the situation. I doubt every plastic is as bad, do studies and ban the worst/least useful plastics and work your way from there.

        I mean synthetic textiles alone make up almost half of the plastic in the ocean.