Dear MEL Topic Readers,
Earth is becoming 'Planet Plastic'
Convenient and inexpensive. Over eight billion tons of plastic products have been produced in the last 65 years. Plastic is so easy to be produced, used and thrown away but so hard to be recycled, incinerated, or biodegraded. Once the plastic product is made, most of them are used in a very short time, like plastic shopping bags or packages. Then they are thrown away or collected with quite a lot of effort. But less than 10% of such discarded plastic is recycled, and most of them are used only once. The rest goes to landfills or floats in the oceans and seas.
While Elon Musk’s Space X is trying to reuse rocket multiple times, plastic bags are reused only once in the best case. Is rocket science needed to reduce or reuse plastic products?
Enjoy reading and thinking what the Planet Plastic is going to be like.
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