I hate those plastic rings and have cut them up for as long as I can remember. I do wish they'd use cardboard and help the paperworkers whose livelihoods are dwindling.
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Thursday, March 20, 2014
Giant plastic six-pack rings strangle public sculptures
I hate those plastic rings and have cut them up for as long as I can remember. I do wish they'd use cardboard and help the paperworkers whose livelihoods are dwindling.
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Dang. Why don't they make them from paper?
ReplyDeleteI agree.
ReplyDeleteSome forward-thinking places have banned single-use plastic shopping bags. It's time legislation required all packaging to be of rapid and safe decomposition if discarded, and manufacturers should not be able to weasel out of responsibility by claiming "it's recyclable!".
We all know that only a fraction of 'recyclable goods are in fact recycled.
I envisage a future where people mine the garbage of the last century to reclaim all the precious raw materials we threw away. The great ocean gyres will be sucked up and filtered to reclaim their valuable hydrocarbons... Or maybe the next Chernobyl, 3 Mile Island, or Fukushima will have put an end to us.
Great rant, Soubriquet.
ReplyDeleteDon’t waste time/energy hating those rings, they’re cheap, reliable, and strong whether wet or dry.
ReplyDeleteThe problem is what people do, or don’t do, with them. So ranting at the mirror, or slapping some sense into your neighbor, is energy better spent than railing against the inanimate object.
People throw them in the garbage and they end up all over the place. They are not biodegradable and hang around forever. Plastic packaging is so bad for the environment. I try not to buy the stuff, including plastic grocery bags and bottled water.
ReplyDeleteThere, now you know why they call me the Nag.