The general method of problem solving doesn’t put more copper in the ground for us to mine. It doesn’t get rid of all the toxic slags produced by refining electronics critical minerals (which is why no Western country wants to touch them; the reason China has cornered the refining market).
Microplastics come from a lot more than food packaging. Car tires, for example, are a major source of microplastics.
What happens when fresh water ends up in the ocean? Or polluted with microplastics or other forever chemicals? Now we need to put in more energy to clean it up. That may be affordable for drinking water but it’s absolutely not so for agricultural irrigation. And guess what? Climate change alters rainfall patterns which ends up drying up the freshwater reservoirs.
Anything synthetic - especially but not limited to microfleeces we’ve been collectively adoring for 30+ years now - constantly breaks down into microplastics which are embedded in your lungs, your loved one’s lungs, and every water source on Earth. Damn depressing. Try not to let your young kids around microfleece, we put it everywhere around their mouths :(
I’m talking about the general method of solving problems.
Just use biodegradable packaging. No need to live like a monk
This is a renewable resource. We will never “run out”
The general method of problem solving doesn’t put more copper in the ground for us to mine. It doesn’t get rid of all the toxic slags produced by refining electronics critical minerals (which is why no Western country wants to touch them; the reason China has cornered the refining market).
Microplastics come from a lot more than food packaging. Car tires, for example, are a major source of microplastics.
What happens when fresh water ends up in the ocean? Or polluted with microplastics or other forever chemicals? Now we need to put in more energy to clean it up. That may be affordable for drinking water but it’s absolutely not so for agricultural irrigation. And guess what? Climate change alters rainfall patterns which ends up drying up the freshwater reservoirs.
Anything synthetic - especially but not limited to microfleeces we’ve been collectively adoring for 30+ years now - constantly breaks down into microplastics which are embedded in your lungs, your loved one’s lungs, and every water source on Earth. Damn depressing. Try not to let your young kids around microfleece, we put it everywhere around their mouths :(