Hawaii: Message in the Waves was nearly 15 years ago!
How far have we got?It is no longer unusual to Take Your Own (or Old even) Bag Shopping. Some of us no longer forget to do so (or only very very rarely). It is still a problem even though single use bags now have to be paid for. We are such suckers for anything "free"!The pandemic has meant that even more plastic packaging seems to have arrived around produce. It makes it quicker to grab and go with our shopping but plastic actually retains the virus longer than other surfaces and we should wash our produce before eating it anyway.Many countries no longer want to take our waste plastic for processing. Together with the USA we are the worst for plastic packaging/single use plastic. When we discourage it here it seems it just encourages marketers to push the use of it in countries who have worse facilities than we have to deal with it.There has been a lot of lobbying by a heavy pro-plastics lobby and a lot of dragging of feet by the powers that be.
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