A Vote for Wool

[Pleater]

the various supermarkets which have been making disintegrating carrier bags as part of their 'green' credentials have now decided to stop - which is great as I have had a real problem with carefully separating matching balls of yarn and then storing them together in large containers, only to discover that I have a container full of yarn and white flakes and a problem with identification.

The amount of small plastic debris of all sorts and sizes has been increasing for several decades - even though the manufacturers have been trying to deny the quantities collected on beaches around the UK. That is a separate issue from the plastic containers and items which do not fall apart with time.

That animals of all sizes are also ingesting the particles has also been known for some time, but no effort to minimise the quantity entering the environment seems to have been made, and very little investigation into the consequences seems to have been done.

Burning plastic is a recipe for disaster, and the only really effective system seems to be recycling - but so many things are not recyclable. It is a real dilemma.

Anne the Pleater :ootd:

[artificer]

the various supermarkets which have been making dissintegrating carrier bags as part of their 'green' credentials have now decided to stop - which is great as I have had a real problem with carefully separating matching balls of yarn and then storing them together in large containers, only to discover that I have a container full of yarn and white flakes and a problem with identification.

The amount of small plastic debris of all sorts and sizes has been increasing for several decades - even though the manufacturors have been trying to deny the quantities collected on beaches around the UK. That is a separate issue from the plastic containers and items which do not fall apart with time.

That animals of all sizes are also injesting the particles has also been known for some time, but no effort to minimise the quantity entering the environment seems to have been made, and very little investigation into the consequences seems to have been done.

Burning plastic is a recipe for disaster, and the only really effective system seems to be recycling - but so many things are not recyclable. It is a real dilemma.

Anne the Pleater :ootd:

All true, and the less said about the Great Pacific Garbage Patch the better.



Man, C'thulhu is going to be pissed, it's almost right above his home. :cthulhusmiley:

[Tobus]

All true, and the less said about the Great Pacific Garbage Patch the better.

Yikes, I knew it was big, but according to the page you linked, that garbage patch is one and a half times the size of the USA! Unbelievable!

[tundramanq]

Until the last century dumping in the oceans, rivers and air we breath was standard practice every where, until medicine made the connection between diseases, plagues and other health issues associated with it. A lot of cultures have died off for mysterious reasons throughout history. It is still practiced in third world counties.