Today is my first actual plastic free day! Time to celebrate the little wins.
I didn't set out on this mission to be puritanical: however, mission it may be. It's more like plastic freeish July.
How did I do it today? ... I started with a long bath, dressed, sat in front of my laptop at Minanoie (a cafe) for a couple of hours while the rain absolutely belted down, then returned back to my desk. Body corporate committee meeting at 5:30 and bike ride to Tuesday Chess in Coburg later on. Simple! Apart from a sit-down lunch, I didn't buy anything.
I'm coming to the realisation that there is 'good plastic' and 'bad plastic' or rather dumb plastic.
Most plastic is made to last a very, very, very long time, right: however, using plastic to make an artificial heart or hip replacement seems like a rather noble use, while using a plastic bag to carry home one litre of milk back from the shops each time you go seems like a silly idea.
More about this later.
It's all about good design — we love this, yes?
Retailers are actually busting to give us what we want. While they also attempt to shift our desires for their benefit, we are ultimately in control. We must act together to send a powerful message.
It looks like we've fixed the hole in the ozone layer, China is set to reduce meat consumption by half, coal-fired power stations are closing all across the world and we have all but solved the AIDS epidemic.
We can do this!
Did you know that the City of San Francisco just banned the sale of polystyrene from 2017?!
Go humans, we'll make it past 2100 yet — by that I mean more people than just Charlton Heston.
Fails:
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