Oct 1, 2019 · 7 min read
If you want to reduce your plastic waste

We are all horrified by the images of our oceans filled with empty plastic bottles, of fishermen wading through waves of discarded bags and yoghurt pots, of beaches strewn with canisters and polysterole foam, and of sea animals’ stomachs full of coloured fragments. Maps of the “plastic continent”, the garbage patches of floating plastic debris in the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans big as whole countries, give a new dimension to the accumulation of…