Life Without Plastics
We all can and should do this
There is no greater evil in this world than the oil industry — not only because of traffic and exhaust gases that contribute to global warming but also because oil is behind the plastic pollution we are facing with no end in sight. Most consumers still aren’t aware of how incredibly harmful plastic is.
What most consumers are also not aware of is that a large majority of plastic waste, over 90% of it, NEVER gets recycled. It doesn’t matter whether you put in the right waste container or not. Most of it gets shipped to poor countries, is incinerated to produce toxic gases, or ends up in landfills and oceans. There is now literally more plastic waste floating in the seas than fish.
During the production, recycling (if it ever comes to that), burning, or degradation in the environment, plastic produces toxic greenhouse gasses and significantly adds to the already alarming problem of global warming —even more so than coal plants and other major polluters.
Given that plastic is literally everywhere, it represents a major threat to the survival of humans and other species.
Since the oil barons and related industries who are behind these atrocities are loaded with cash generated by the…
