#endplasticwaste — Public Fediverse posts

‘It gets your stomach churning’: the team wading through nappies to clean up Bali’s waterways https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/jan/17/stomach-churning-team-wading-through-nappies-to-clean-up-bali-waterways?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

Hats off to Sungai Watch.

This is the Bali I guess sun-seeking holidaymakers don’t see. Beyond the manicured hotel compounds, the real Bali, drowning in its own waste. One can only imagine what it must be like to live there.

#plasticpollution #toxicwaste #EndPlasticWaste

PepsiCo sued by New York state for plastic pollution https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-67435329

Good

#EndPlasticWaste

Consumer groups launch EU-wide complaint against major water bottle producers for greenwashing

“100% recyclable”: This ambiguous term depends on many factors such as the available infrastructure to collect material, the effectiveness of the sorting process, or appropriate recycling processes. The recycling rate for PET beverage bottle bodies is estimated to be only 55% in the EU and the chance of it becoming a bottle again around 30%.

https://www.beuc.eu/press-releases/consumer-groups-launch-eu-wide-complaint-against-major-water-bottle-producers

#greenwashing #EndPlasticWaste

If every company that bangs out basically useless plastic crap stopped doing it, I wonder how much

a) FF we wouldn’t use
b) CO2 we’d avoid
c) plastic trash we’d avoid

Every year?

Seriously, does anyone know?

This surely has to be one of the simplest triple-whammy things we could do. Not the biggest, but pretty simple, no?

#EndPlasticPollution #EndPlasticWaste