Comment on Australia’s amount of plastic waste surges as recycling rates fail to improve
Eyekaytee@aussie.zone 3 weeks ago
The largest source was due to product packaging, responsible for about 1m tonnes of new plastic each year. Other large plastic users included the built environment (18%), electrical (9%) and clothing (8%).
True for me, duno what else you can do, chips, biscuits, cheese etc all come wrapped in plastic
Until a viable alternative is introduced to replace the defunct RedCycle program - best we can do is try to try to minimise - ie. only get the biggest bags of products (or try and make your own at home), or whenever possible get the ones in hard clamshells.
But yes, it’s depressing to see just how much plastic waste we produce currently - especially knowing what we know now about microplastics - compared to the 90s and earlier.
It’s not even the direct to consumer stuff that is the worst offender… Ever been to a cotton on when they are putting out new shipments?
Every single pair of underwear comes in an individual plastic bag and on a plastic hanger. The tables of folded undies? Each one was wrapped and hangered and the employees spend ages removing and disposing of layers of plastic.
Every shirt, etc. immediately removed from the plastic bag and either hung on it’s plastic hanger or hanger removed and folded on a table.
It’s disgusting. Multiply this by the thousands of fast fashion clothing stores and you can see how massive this problem is.
Chips, biscuits are hardly food, they’re crap.
Cheese you can buy from the Deli counter if you don’t want plastic wrapped.
FireWire400@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I was kinda shocked to see that TimTams still come wrapped in plastic. Even here in Germany most bigger manufacturers of biscuits have switched to alternative materials and cardboard trays