Plastic nightmare

auspicious

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.rte.ie/amp/1037179/&ved=2ahUKEwj2rZqh7IzhAhUQTBUIHYbdCq8QlO8DMAB6BAgIEAU&usg=AOvVaw2EZ1mvA1Mx3PHmQhZKkKrf&ampcf=1

We don't need to read Shelly or Stephen King to be filled with dread and sorrow when we have material such as in the link above.

A truly shocking ending of starvation and pain for a strong breathtaking creature. I can't begin to imagine it's ordeal.

I guess if most of us were there to witness the 40kg of plastic being pulled from it's remains, we'd be instant active advocates for cleaning up our oceanic trash.

Start at home. Or even better. Start at the supermarket...

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.rte.ie/amp/1037179/&ved=2ahUKEwj2rZqh7IzhAhUQTBUIHYbdCq8QlO8DMAB6BAgIEAU&usg=AOvVaw2EZ1mvA1Mx3PHmQhZKkKrf&ampcf=1


This one whale had 40kg of plastic crap in it's stomach and died horribly. It wasn't just unlucky. How many more whales of varying species are going through and going to go through this?...



https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.thedodo.com/amphtml/whale-dolphin-intelligence-1115379504.html&ved=2ahUKEwioifHw74zhAhUNQxUIHZwrCIEQFjAQegQICRAB&usg=AOvVaw0FCC4NA4x-lh3VlKmuhlIP&ampcf=1&cshid=1552953117881

_Brian

It’s a sickening story.
We’ve become scaringly reliant on plastic.

There needs to be a huge push to ban all non recyclable plastics.

Humans need to use their purchasing power and avoid excessively packaged goods.

More local small stores selling locally grown produce, there are some fantastic people doing fruit/veg boxes with recyclable wooden boxes and no plastic on the food, it’s great, we just need to support them and encourage more.

_Brian

Here’s a guy in Drogheda doing lovely looking veg boxes. Sadly I’m too far outside his catchment area.

https://twitter.com/BrendanGuinan?s=17

Vexorg

There is a small shop local to me called Small Changes doing their bit to reduce packaging and seem to be well supported anytime I have been in, (Thursday and Saturday when they get their Tar Tine sour dough delivery). You can buy spices, washing up liquids, hand soaps etc. just bring your own containers.

Even the Tar Tine bread comes in compostible packaging, the proper compostible that can go in the brown bin, not the sort that requires commercial composting which has to be separated at the processing plant.

Despite the additional cost they appear to be succeeding.

Tar.Aldarion

I like small changes and the restaurant next to it, Shouk. Really good hummus. Need more shops like that, but really we need the supermarkets/suppliers to just use less of it. There is another no waste shop in Phibsboro called Noms and there is the Dublin food coop in kilmainham.

Vexorg

Shouk is good, I have had both good and slightly disappointing dishes there. I say slightly disappointing as it was more a case of me not being enthuastic about taste or a texture while friends found the same dish to be good.

Chickpeas are my least favorite legume, so I usually avoid tasting hummus.


Perhaps a tax on single use packaging might spur some sort of change from the supermarkets and shoppers in the same way the tax on plastic bags make us rapidly change to reusable or “bag for life” bags.

I like small change’s reusable shopping bags, the artwork changes from time to time and they have a charity bag with a % going to charity.

davidjtaylor

All packaging is/could be barcoded and should be returned to the producer, especially plastic, unless it’s certified genuinely compostable; this will entail a (part?) refundable deposit on every piece of such packaging to discourage littering/flytipping.

REPAK should be dismantled - it was never going to work anyway.

Tilikum17

My misses was running a zero waste stall in a market here last year.

The vast majority of people just aren’t interested. They were more interested in buying junk food instead.

_Brian

Tilikum17 wrote: »

My misses was running a zero waste stall in a market here last year.

The vast majority of people just aren’t interested. They were more interested in buying junk food instead.

Yea. Sadly most seem happy with cheap nasty fast food style lifestyle with little regard fror themselves, others nor the environment.

davidjtaylor

Tilikum17 wrote: »

My misses was running a zero waste stall in a market here last year.

The vast majority of people just aren’t interested. They were more interested in buying junk food instead.

The fresh/loose food shop in Ennis (Meanwell) are very much into people re-using containers and bags. I’ve suggested they also let people leave their unwanted carriers for others to use.

You can even get Engervita B12 flakes loose there btw.