With Christmas very much (and some might say ‘thank goodness’) over, I am sure like my house, the main room was covered in wrapping paper and empty plastic boxes/containers on the day.
We will also all have spent quite a bit of time diligently sorting through the ‘mess’ to make sure that we put the right items into the right recycling boxes ready for the ‘rescheduled’ holidays collections – how many of us still got the dates wrong!
But hang on a minute! Yes we are all encouraged to recycle our waste so that it does not end up making a bigger problem, but what about all the items that came ‘in‘ that mountain of paper and plastic in the first place?
This interesting article from the Guardian ‘The solution to the plastic waste crisis? It isn’t recycling’ caught my eye today. I was amazed to read that the latest Disney sponsored Arendelle Castle Village from Lego contains some 521 bits of plastic!
With many of the plastic based toys that now abound for our younger generation, one wonders if we need to approach recycling in a different way by simply buying less plastic in the first place, especially if much of the plastic around us is still not fully recyclable. I should point out that from my current understanding many of the latest Lego products are fully recyclable.
However; as we look around us, much plastic is still not fully recyclable and there; is the crux of the problem! Just how do we solve this dilemma, plastic is cheap and everywhere, we have got to think about not producing as much and really ramp up the use of other more sustainable & recyclable products.
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