I want to say one word to you, just one word:

Plastics. That was famous advice given to Dustin Hoffman ' s character in The Graduate, and if we were only concerned about Benjamin Braddock ' s financial future, it was actually excellent advice. But the recent discussion in the comments prompted me to hoist the issue to the front page. The problem of plastic waste is already catastrophic, and it ' s on track to get worse.  There are lots of good sources about this, including the Wikipedia article, but look out: there are industry front groups that are pretending to want to do something about it but they ' re largely fraudulent. As commenters have noted, recycling is a core fraud. The idea that we can all be virtuous by tossing our plastic waste in the blue bin, and then everything is okay, is an intentional deceit. Maybe 8% of plastic gets recycled, and the biggest contributors to the problem of plastic waste in the environment are not recyclable at all.National Geographic has some background: Half of all plastics ever manufactured have been made in the last 15 years.Production increased exponentially, from 2.3 million tons in 1950 to 448 million tons by 2015. Production is expected to double by 2050.Every year, about 8 million tons of plastic waste escapes into the oceans from coastal nations. That ’s the equivalent of setting five garbage bags full of trash on every foot of coastline around the world.Plastics often contain additives making them stronger, more flexible, and durable. But many of these addi...
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