MSW-Blog RECOM #55: 'OnSlows and SlowDeaths' ; Or, 'Bad Enough...'

Plus, ('And'), ...Save us from the type-thought sort from 'And Save a day to the Climate'

“...I noticed my grandad also took a dim view of the plastic laundry liquid dispensers then coming on to the market and relentlessly adverted on TV. In fact, he seemed to take a dim view of every brilliant consumer product lavishly constructed from plastic. Grandad was vocal on the subject, and told me in no uncertain terms that once you make something from plastic, it would take hundreds of years to degrade. It was clear that he thought this was an enormously bad idea.

Not only did he dislike the material, he seemed to make huge efforts to stop it getting into his bungalow, which, alarmingly, he declared a plastic free zone. ...To my utter mortification, on some trips he actually unpeeled the plastic wrapping from his grocery shop and left it at the checkout, an act of rebellion...” (; Siegle, p. 131) 
 

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"Coffee culture has gone crazy in the UK over the last twenty years. By 2025 the number of coffee shops is forecast to increase from 20,000 to 30,000, and unless we do something that means more cups. This is horrifying. ...

Many of us assumed that, because they look papery, coffee cups could just be plonked in recycling bins along with newspapers. Not so fast. The fact that the 2.5 billion coffee cups produced in the UK every year are not easily recyclable came as a shock. But once I'd seen single-use coffee cups being made, the reason why was less mysterious. To make them leak-proof and heat resistant, plastic is poured onto paperboard and the materials are fused together. The cups are then punched out of the laminated cardboard by machines. ... Only two paper mills in the UK have the technology to separate the plastic from the board, I suspect they're rather busy. Only one in 400 disposable coffee cups are recycled.

Takeaway coffee cups come with an added complication: the lids are rarely taken into consideration, but they are single-use plastic and even less likely to be recycled than the cup itself. That's saying something.

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"...in February 2018 a six-ton, 33-foot-long juvenile male sperm whale beached near a lighthouse in Cabo. de Palos, in Murcia, Spain. ...the results of neurolepsy released, revealing the gruesome 29 kg statistic: plastic bags, pieces of net and a plastic jerrycan were pulled from the animals four stomachs, tagged and weighed.

Neuropsies the animal equivalent of an autopsy, are becoming regular occurrences as more vulnerable sea creatures succumb to death by trash. A disturbing photograph from 2011...shows...next to a hundred plastic bags and other pieces of plastic debris ...recently pulled from the stomachs of another deceased sperm whale found off the Greek island of Mykonos. To put it bluntly, it looks like a murder scene. When the blood was cleaned from one of the plastic bags, it displayed the phone number of a restaurant in Thessaloniki. This image helped to focus attention on the need for a tax or ban on plastic carrier bags. ...four euro cent charge on carrier bags was introduced in Greece in January 2018, causing usage to drop by 80 per cent in the first month.

More recently the grim findings from the neurolepsies of thirteen of the twenty-nine whales that beached in the German... Amid the plastic debris found within the cadavers' intestines were a 13 m fishing net, a 70 cm piece of plastic from a car engine cover and plastic bucket. ...animals may have thought the items were food, mistaking plastic for squid. The animals starve, thinking they have full stomachs.

There are other and fewer good news stories about whales and other aquatic wildlife hitting the headlines. Meanwhile the experts warn that we shouldn't just be worried about large plastic objects such as the jerrycan or entire fishing nets blocking the gut, but the small bits of microplastics, the nurdles and the microfibres, too, which have the potential to harm all species of cetacean – dolphins, whales and porpoises – not only those that suction feed.

Over 280 species of wildlife including puffins and fulmars have now been found to ingest microplastics. In March 2018 a study reported in the Frontiers in Marine Science journal revealed that three-quarters of deep-sea fish have plastic in their stomachs.

It's hard to express adequately how catastrophic this is. ...killed due to our discarded plastic debris, the fallout from our mindless 'throwaway' acts of consumption." (; p. 88-9.)

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“A. I.? - Will it save the frogs too?” 
 ; (Just a thought, some from purely my own...)

Turning the Tide on Plastic  
How Humanity (and You) Can Make Our Globe Clean Again

by Lucy Siegle

(2018, Trapeze ; 264 p. )
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; Series of viewpoints on Commonwealth(s), pt XI

[; Book Recommends II/2018]

 

...'Cause our most recent post ended on those few remarks from Climate, I think it for proper to devote this Bk-rec on Siegle's book, from entirely. (On, from Climates too, by occasional and when that from w. the main discussed coincides.) Part the reason, maybe, that I rarely venture for the sea-sides. I've actually not witnessed very much of what ever more is recognized, realizes at the views such as that in the preceded cites describing. What is said from ever more common from threaten the marine life, and lifeforms.

'Vainglories', (And their costs from, in form from...) ; Those plastic deaths, to put that plainly - If expressed w. the most uncircumnavigable on terms. ; One time I was on the seasides, I was observing those green, smelling and unpleasant lookin waters of the Baltic. It was most part only of the algae, and the other usual signs to all too common for 'sceneries', nowadays. Some resulted of the over-fertilization accumulated on waters, and at least formerly even more carelessly released human 'hidden' waste-waters, etc. (etc.) – But the thing is now often for remarked – Obviously, those waters indeed didn't look any too 'healthy'. Also I recall of earlier had noted how it was in the past years observed about the dolphin's having left the said minor inner sea already by, about, the 1970s. (To clarify one may then notice, those by some numbers to the more recent seems said of had returned.) ; But the general impression, some that one mostly turns to page on books, is still a decription about the Baltic for 'dying Sea' - Despite everything. Despite that the efforts to save it been goin on now some time. 'Goin strong', these days, you maybe could even find for say. (At least if we think how those waters ended up to this present state. Then is also the Global Warming, affecting on that ever more too...)

; Thenagain, most of us, old enough to remember the Costeau-deep sea serials might probably find (smght) very contradictive at the fact that since after that environmentalistic awareness by the 1970s we've increasingly gotten adapted to this culture from plastic single-usage materials. On packaging, wrappers, fillers, etc...and everything alike. Taken for and adjusted as aspects usual part from our 'daily life'.

; Then to the more alarming seems received the recognition about those Sperm Whales. Species from cetacean, belonging for the Odontoceti ('Toothed whales'). Some amongst others, which due the humanity's past track record of hunting for the sports and to other surplus killling, would gotten already prior classed in the threatened. (VU acc. the current IUCN listing, seems it.) – Something which doesn't really comfort my thoughts, anyhow, fromafter these readings. The plastic wastes on seas are, of course, only said discovered of expected to multiply – Ever more disturbingly during the ongoin' century. ; Namely, somewhat shockingly, what seems now to be to the most common cited remark – is - that by the end of the century there likely more singular plastic items at Ocean(s) than there will be fish. The true cost for that - smtght - which precisely becomes not so very clear...Until you begin from to think about that to more profound. Begin to 'scratch' that bit deeper from, bit more closely than just about that to first impressions.

Of hence first these brief 'prewords'. (Or these to some short introduction from, about.)

'Vortex boating' (The modern version) ; Quite as alarming, of course, feels the said by impression, of/from that catastrophic sea-of-litter - Some (actually there exist couplesome) formed of the plastic debris floating on (Pacific) sea-surface. ...Always romantic (-minded), I can't avoid from having the idea about in mind w. a views from a horrifying vortex, such as that described by Edgar Allan Poe, on a short-story, 'Maelstorm'. Guess one would make just as environmentalistic effective, informative depictions of it than is that image of the plastic litter-wave and mountain  (Fuji?, it has to be...), in the book cover of that Siegle. And maybe someone already has, of course. A few Sperm whales, plastic jerry-cans and the all rest from floating at that vortex. The 'bottom line' is then that the described 'maelstrom' can't offer the answer for where all that 'littered plattered' does ultimately reside. Such as in the 'real life' (or, 'for real') it finally having to 'bounce back'. And ending up: Everywhere. ...I think this 'view' to more 'realistic' than it seems for – no "plastic vortex" to my knowledge exists - But our attitudes to the plastic waste seems from have, very much, some resemblance to that. (Of the most part, we have no idea where preciely all from goes.) 
 

Most having heard about that, the GPGP (Great Pacific CarbagePatch, such is the name it, that actual 'plastic sea', now called with.) ; Said it from been first noticed already by that same 1970s, but only increasingly by more recent seems for gained any larger recognition. - In the book, the rude facts about – Or, according the findings noted by 'the most recent team', the 'latest data', said to tell (that); "...GPGP is sixteen times bigger than we thought from previous estimates. Stretching across 600,000 square miles of ocean, it dwarfs France, is bigger than Texas, weighs in at 79,000 tonnes and contains an estimated 1.8 trillion pieces of rubbish, 99.9 per cent of which is plastic. One item pulled from the patch was found to be forty years old." (;80-1)

; Siegle also has a point-of-view from to write that the said 'ocean gyres', particularly that Great Pacific Garbage Patch, seem to taken the 'quasi-mythical status'. (; But not quite so well from noted, often, is their obvious connexion to our 'present' way-of-life. Soforth, recommendable if you'd just passed over my the last paragraph given little imaginations to...) ; On the same pages, she refers at studies by Richard Thompson, of Plymouth Univ., who was lookin' what becomes the rest of the seen 'rapid increase in plastic usage' (Where it 'ends up'). The answer was largest part ending up in the sediments. From the same studies is said also from originate that now often seen modern term 'microplastics'. ; ...Since, I guess, the said details are quite often from recent remarked, we make it not our task to dig very deep on anything to that.

Until (about) that time the details from this large problem (Microplastics) weren't at least near so much to any public awareness. But maybe it's of some use if I also relate for this some figures I happened from note down while myself first did read of how vast the problem from that plastic debris.. ; The Mediterranean (Sea) certainly hadn't left me w. any very inviting sceneries for memoirs, neither – Since long ago past. (Despite the few holidays by the sea, meaning. Ah, how so nostalgic it feels by now; beachy sand castles and moats and everything... All from the said – in the predeced, and the 'followin' - doesn't mean I wouldn't love the sea. On some levels you nowhere else perhaps feel of so much alive, than on the sea (or at the 'seaside') – But it just not one of the environments closest for my heart, for personally.

...But what was on this our main p-o-w : Now about, (maybe, some) 10 years past it was that I glanced around a study from saying that even such tiny animals as the Krill were noted for to digest amounts of the small polyethene particles. It also remarked, that in the Mediterranean-sea, the "...micro debris floating [had, by then] ...reached 115,00 particles per square kilometer with a maximum of 892,000 particles." ; Considering that, the fished sea foods and fisheries haven't everafter felt such very inviting, either. ...'Though, it not from prevented me being a favorer to those, at least as much as of the fungi. (...Thinkin 'positively', you probably still gather less of potentially healths-compromising intake from the plastic debris, during your life-time, than fx can be gained of some other common modern habits; Fx, as side-results from the uses of the chemial cleaning tablets at your washing machine. ; Means that, naturally, there not any established, 'evidenced' knowledge about their any direct harmful effects - of course, otherways we'd all be 'compromised' and the stuffs taken off sales - But there are, on washing liquids, some particular ingredients that do accumulate for the body.) ; But that's just of human health part from this. Most part the caused disruptions and accumulations to the seas food-chains and from species ever more vulnerable, might go from unnoticed. Less noticed than fx the issue about humans over-fishing some species. Within (some) time feels it could emerge to even for the more potential (major) human health factor – At least one should see that plastic sea, from half the century's time 'engarbaged' in the at least as alarming and to infamous a light than appear known aspects from, fx, the PCB. And by any case, if not yet reality already, in the meanwhile from waitin' any 'solutions' we might've have a few more vulnerable marine species annihilated 'off the map'. 
...Apart from many less better and better known animals (, Pacific/US west-coast Sea-otters to mention one), one might think many cases there also must be species whose diets severely burdened by the increase of that plastic debris; The diving Albatroses (and some like), some predative birds (perhaps), and then some other numbers species of the toothed whales, ...Or you name it, not having anything too specific from to tell w. my limited knowledges about. The long-term effects from that ("our") plastic left-after, anycase, by nowadays some bigger uncertainty factor. Amongts others.

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The World that the 'Uncle Plastic' had for made... ; If not for/to any lenghtier sermons from, these fewsome words only because it all so keenly relates for these aspects about our modern culture of plasticity. How the 'Big Oil' and the modern single-use consumer plastics might've become for so 'neatly' to adjoined and (to) remained – Most part as an unquestioned part from our present consumerist lives - To the everybody's harm, until for the ever-escaping 'distant futures'. But it maybe, it also bit comparable, actually quite much, to how already that Moses herded his flocks – w. a whip and carrot. Somewhere around the issue, in the sidelines, lies that human incompability from make an actual meaningful change on this said culture - The same one responsible on this emerged consumerist waste accumulade, and the expansive, ever-spreadin production. (Passed down now for a few generations.)

And plastic really kills, it not said to any exaggeration. If not at once so devastingly than those oil spills at seas – to the more steadily, but also for more unnoticed. More slowly too. Also, practically (almost) every material manufactured of plastics in the industry could be replaced w. better alternatives. Would have massive effect from to change our completely wrong-gone consumerist habits and behaviours for the better, too. I mean, there's not an alternative, if you actually want the cleaner and more pleasant habitats, environments. Today – such as the issue been for some times now – Seems it noted there being developed biodegradable alternatives to the packing plastics. Plus for it's replaces on other of the multitude said uses it remains. (Hope they're sometimes practical, and taken uses. Until that to take place 'for real' – Here not any 'scifistic' advertising about.)

...Even if you'd think the aspect itself not so very "urgent", and in need of pay some attention, your kids obviously wouldn't have the same chances to avoid thinkin' about it (this way) – On their time. Anyway, one also finds on that Siegle a few chapters specifically on the aspect about, of this view-point, ie by that I (mainly) mean the following:

"...not only are we choosing to make new plastic instead of recycling what we've discarded, but to compound matters, we are also making it from fossil fuel.

[...] At the current rate of production, for every barrel of oil extracted from the earth, 8 per cent becomes plastic: 4 per cent is the raw material used to make the plastic and the other 4 per cent is the fuel that powers the polymerisation process. Plastic binds us to the fossil fuel economy linking us directly resource-conflicts and climate change. Our mission would be to decouple from oil with urgency. So while that 8 per cent figure might sound insignificant, isn't it counter-intuitive, at the very least, to be moving in entirely wrong direction?" (; p. 24-5.)

(...Noted from too, that from the oil increasingly becoming for a neglected as energy-source, the prices for having plummeted, those fossil energy companies and 'oil giants' were also increasingly seen for to invest on an expansion for this modern 'plastic culture'. The results of which, then, may have been seen on that everlargening expansion of the places plastic having become on uses.)

; If then the remarked wouldn't appear for serious alarming enough, one might find some increased causes of anxiety from also read that; "The shale gas flowing from West Texas is used as feedstock for ethylene, the building block most plastics." (; 26) ; Or; "...Propelled by shale gas, polyethylene production most commonly used in packaging...is about to take off.

Because there is no doubt: since 2010, $180 billion has gone into new plastic manufacturing plants across the Atlantic, and that translates into an almighty push to sell billions of pounds of extra polyethylene." (; Same page)

; But like I perhaps said formerly, of course you don't necessary have to support any culture that – plainest words - shakes hands with the climate destruction/steady increase of an ecological indifference. Or any part from it. But to make opposite decisions in your life you of course have to have also some principles - strong enough.

...Only that, indeed, on our althrough consumerized culture, nowadays, it not always appears that easy than it would seem by the first view. ...Given the level modern consumers seem from adjusted (and adviced) to this "unavoidability" of those plastics cultures, how deeply them are – sort of – comforted and pleased of not to 'give a damn' about might also ring alarm bells on any thinkin' mind. It feels pretty apparent that you aren't often expected to see anything very odd on the whole process of. ; (I only make this short of say about the whole transparency of it, that whole 'pack of lies' on it. Smtgh which often shows for to good reasons for me from not buy...Such as I've often thought.) But the examples populate our surrounding so overwhelmingly, you just can't avoid the stuff these days. Some most apparent are, fx,.. (On the) napkins, toilet-bags, sweepers, (innumerable) toys, on those (also innumerable, also non-recyclable) shampoo-packages, in the micro-wave meals and fast food meals, the double plastic wrappers to your ink cartridges, fruits and veggies sold at plastic containers, those single-use 'plasticed' coffee cups, plus those (generally) unecological electric tooth cleaners (worst case in embedded w. the non-replaceable batteries – non-recyclable too; Indeed, what a waste...)

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“I think there is a fatality in it – I seldom go to the place I set out for.” ; Sterne (Laurence, 1713-68), from the Sentimental Journey through France and Italy ; p. 1768 (on the 2^nd book, suppose it from a chpt 'Adresses, Versailles'...)

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“Across Europe, an incredible 46 billion beverage bottles are consumed every year. Almost half are thought to be plastic single-use bottles, and many of these will contain sugary fizzy pop. Almost half of the 35 million plastic bottles bought in the UK every day are not recycled. If you must indulge, buy a canned drink instead, or do your teeth and the environment a favour and curb that urge entirely! Win-win?” (Siegle; p. 131)

; Those naughty gents of the EdwardShire... ; ...Of course, pretty much at the book seems to be from more adjustable/based at examples from British Isles. ; ...Imagining that the Britain w. it's some over 20 (or is it by 40-60?) million inhabitants maybe by presenlyt have had to face those "plastic futures" for a more considerably serious problem. Whatever the exact number, the isles happen to be several times more densely populated than these regions from North, for my present localihood. (Only certain rule about - almost - any country's demographic and economic advance and development seems to realize at the increase of a generated rubbish – Or at least so it been well long, on decades past.) ; Nevertheless, borrowed the book on it's English version. Translation might've, maybe, proven for more adjustable cons these localities of mine, 'suppose. But then we wouldn't had this much for cited to this recommendable post.

(...By the way, there also is from briefly referred (p-37-8) on how the early 'plastic inventions' even might helped save the Hawksbill-populations, at the time, from then an extinctive effect by that vast industry. Once them were hunted for purposes of Victorian period manufactures. Since it was fashioned for manufacture items and products from the turtles carapaces, from been converted on those 1800ian uses, to 'combs, belts, and shoe buckles', etc...for all kinds of items. That practically extinctive hunt, or, it's harmful pressures on natural populations said of gotten helped/bit for lessened, partly due because from Alexander Parkes invention – the 'Parkesine' – Such as it seems been commonly called to. (Some celluloid resemblant (?) early material, app.) )

[; ...On mentioning the Hawksbills and their historical decline (due that hunt and trade), reminds then us from the earlier past wrote 'chapter' on the species on these pages, ie here. ...That by some ten years past now wrote, 'suppose it not very comprihensive from several notable details considering. ..I fx noted it later described from that the cause' for that described serious disease of persecuting them (fibriopapillomatosis), was in fact discovered by that timing (and so it wasn't thenafter anymore studied from, the treatment been discovered. ...Or about like.) ;

Nevertheless, they're indeed rather unique, exciting species (That Eretmochelys imbricata. Like all from the marine turtles would be, of course.) ; That Wikip-Link seems also from note it to have for some specialty as the reptile-species exceptionally from show characteristics of the biofluoresecence. (That seemed there assumed traceable for specifics of their diet, consisting largely from sponges. ...Which also then givin' the reason also describin' the Hawksbills species to the '...only primarily spongivorous reptile.'  ; Then, it also seems for relate some from the details about that past trade, a few paragraphs lenght. Nonetheless, once I got to mention those said histories from...Also reminded me that I happened sometimes, byside, also from archive a few passages from abbreviation about the history of that. (Once I viewed the more detailed combined views, from the IUCN-Red List.) ; Soforth, sort from gives better complete background and historical views on the issue - Since those also of course only one amongst the many marine species that we'd - us, humans - gotten on 'near the brink' from with our past destructive actions (and the now recognized present ) - Even before this present 9 mrd world, and it's (many) presently troubling future prospects. 
Ie...It fx seems for say about that '(Hawksbill) tortoiseshell trade history', that, from 'early' lot pursued even as early as antique and 'pre-christian times' (when already the jewellery and other artefacts were been manufactured from the turtle shells), and;

"The tortoisehell trade has been closely linked to European discovery, conquest, and commerce around the world. The Portuguese, Dutch, French and English played majorn roles in the global trade; exploitation occurred throughout the world's tropical oceans, and especially in the East Indies (i.e., modern day India, Indo China, Indonesia, Malaysia and Philippines). The East Indies were a major source of the shell of antiquity, and these rich waters fittingly have been called the world's productive seas for tortoiseshell (Parsons, 1972). In the insular Pacific international trade did not develop until the mid 19th century, but once established, it took a tremendous toll on the region's Hakwsbills. For the next 150 years, tortoiseshell was a prized commodity in the Pacific, first with sandal-wooders and the with the whalers (McKinnon 1975)"  ; and (ao):

"...Trade statistics are key to understanding the erormous and enduring effect that trade has had on Hawksbill populations around the world. In the early 20th century, tortoiseshell was imported for luxury markets in Europe and United States and Asia as the manufacture of combs and brushed, jewellery boxes, and tortoiseshell ornaments was 'an established industry in almost every civilized country' (Seale 1917). Declines in Hawksbill populations were obvious in many areas by the first part of the century... Although existing records document an extensive trade in many countries, ...records for many other areas are incomplete.
During the 20th Century, Japan was the worlds largest importer...data not available for imports in the first half of the century, Japanese statistics document the import of shell equivalent to more than 1.3 million large Hawksbills from around the world between 1950-1992 and more than 575,000 stuffed juveniles from Asia between 1970-1986... ...When Japanese, European and American and other Asian imports are considered along with the large quantities of tortoiseshell used locally in places like Sri Lanka and Madagascar, it is readily apparent that some millions of Hawksbills were killed for the tortoiseshell trade in the last 100 years." ; Citings via Mortimer-Donnelly, 2008. (IUCN Red List. version 2009.1)

 (A few parts to the examples only. Enshortened to this, of course.) ; ...Merely related here for a bit more comprehensive view of that too. (And because from - the reason, let us say, the actual reason for - ...that kind of remember for us also from earlier had from few 'chapters' enbriefed - at some post, before - some comparable citates (Some less specifically of, from  the global Tortoiseshell-trade, but of the some cited descriptions about that 1800s. On the marine turtle populations, concerning, how devastating them were destroyed, at the time. - But not thenafter the passages seem were then to be found...) ; Soforth, only for sidementioned here. But it has the couple main aspects, perhaps to the more noticeable; First that like from many species (now severelt endangered), their populations once may have appeared, indeed vast. And, second that that the whole - most part - could've taken places already before the present ages of our marine pollution, acidified seas, the modern 'World-wide traffic'. (...Those more recent, present threats then - some part - described on the said post, above. Even if it may been from a bit...incomprihensive.) But anyway...]
    
; But, let us then just cite something from it in addit these points from ours.  Serves the purpose fx the sentences (Of  an early part book too.) ; "The early plastic pioneers were archetypical geniuses in sheds, their methods conforming to Edison's idea of achieving scientific greatness and transforming the world through 'one per cent inspiration, 99 per cent perspiration'. ...The race to make plastic on a manufacturing scale was intensely competive, giving the whole process a dynamic story arch with characters that we possibly learned about in school science lessons, ..." (; 39)

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...And there is then some chapters on the lot more recent 'modern' shift to an increased (very) unecological, very plastic economy by this day. The apparent downsides observed in the book, fx, on these followed few sentences: "Today, practically none of the manufacturers or retailers – the people who benefit from cheap, oil-based packaging – pay anything like the true environmental cost of cleaning it up.” (; 212) ; ...Plus, I only shortly relate, but in the begins said fx that when the 'global recession impacted', by 2007, the prior created novel recyclement practices were soon to see lot objections; "...Those of us who were pushing for better recycling, smarter design of everyday items and less single-use plastic – and there were many of us – ceded too much control to the retail, manufacturing and plastic industries. They in turn came up with a typically complex system of levies that meant the biggest producers of the plastics that enter our bins – the big manufacturers and household brands churning our billions of bottles, tubs and trays a year – do not pay the true costs of production, impact, collection and recycling of those products. Nor do they pay a penalty if the plastic they inflict on the world is not recycled." (;32-3)

; ...Cited 'cause makes it for quite apparent from how these plastic-cultures might've often begotten 'fuelled' by the same oil-economy, some pocketing and eating out for it's profits from your children's futures (Alongside that, of the global climates.) That one which usually 'burps' and continues thereafter from to puke over of it's wastes realizing/ending to those 'Garbage patches' at seas, as well. Well, ends up the part from that litter elsewhere too: Agricultural fields. Birds stomachs. To those remaining - seemingly - pristine natural landscapes. (Only referred o , of this shortly to make my p-o-w's clear.)

Yet; the goverments and legislation should, of course, at least find some ways from to more direct downscale this modern consumer packaging for it to develop to the less wastes-generating. Can't invent any effective methods except than from taxate those polyethylenes and alike, from the more considerably. Which is probably somewhat unpopular as idea, or maybe not seen too 'realistic' from. (Fx, as the prior example might be from said tell from about how easy in this modern 'social system', monetary democratism it seem often for appeared to outcompete any ecologically made alternatives 'off the consumers sight'.) ; And maybe would it be quite difficult, as the larger parts of the base-line productions already were shifted for those (by then) so called developing countries. In the usual thought, all then mainly is to somebody else's concerns, suppose. ; Even more troubling – for any thinkin' person – it is how by nowadays, it seems got to be seen to some 'economic necessity' (For the taxpayers to pay, and the all not-cares by the said big production to appear complete unreachable. Unless you think the emerging interest on better recyclement and the equally emerging more 'small-scale' alternatives at least are now offering us the chances from the more favorable choices. And indeed those would, of course...) But also to it's very most apparent baseline seems the 'plastic problema' trace itself to the exact same direction than how this 'climatic problema' got for so urgent by these days; The lack of any modern political will.

...'Though, guess' it not mainly my task here for invent any fool-proof ways how we'd best avoid/halt it's expand to even larger problems. From with such little interest on economics.

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Beyond those 'Swingin-Pingvin' Smiles... ; ...On that level, most people perhaps find the most their annoyance on that aspect about 'the big crooks' eating directly and undirectly from your country's purse. (Another way to look at that.) The pollution usually costs, anyway you might observe the problema. Even if the politicians more or less tend appear slow to admit the aspect, that there's a problem. (Such as soon becomes clear from little observing for any 'case histories', the lot present recent talked of, on these ongoin' 'Climate-stressed' decades.)

; Or, what else could I say, on to these p-o-w's, after all? Perhaps it also - unlike the cases about the climates of been from – mostly also continues w. (somewhat) w. the 'silent' permission of all us consumers, participating in that 'process' of a plastic pollution. So it's at least needed some meaningful decisions on to cut down that plastic packaging. The whole effect of this, to our very lives, being actually very degrading. Disgracefull and shamefull. – Think they sometimes did invent a term for this sort things, in during those eco-conscious 1970s (or by 1950s?) - Ah, yes known by name from the Planned obsolescence.

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  '...Given the rocky future we have already locked in', ? ; ...For some 'after-thoughts' viewing the sort accompanying 'case-histories', gives me to this an additional titling w. following kind: 'Fossil Fuel industry spent nearly $2 billion to kill U.S. Climatic action, new study finds' ; Considering the Climates, Klein's newer recent book (When no is Not Enough) at least seems for give some clear duidelines to how we happened to get here, to this point – And, truly it can't be too much stated, how urgent, how it could for quickest get rid from that (The fossil energy slavery, still part of most present economies). And how the Climate crisis avoided.

; But recommended to check the book. What the said on that Great Barrier Reef. And from that Standing Rock, fx, too.

...There's lot else too, of course. Esp. about all the said of those often discussed inequalities which now all too long seem from driven humanity towards that said unhoped (and distastrous) 3 plus degrees in the global thermometer. ; I only make the mention, that few people actually bother for check about those projected futuristics, beyond the said rate of warming. It all too often representing a some obscure figure, only. Indeed, they say the time-limit is for a few decades left now. That sense very useful to familiarize what she has to say on. No doubt many have. ; ...So guess'll myself returning on the subject on that 2030 – it's all too late then, of course – having ourselves predicted the 'tipping point' on that far. Suppose, by this present rate I'd needed for recalculate my own estimates for the more nearer from this present timing... ; To these views also often noted that for so Big Issue, the Climate, that we'd needed very Big Words if having from say anything too meaningful, in addit, or some further remarks (on it). (Well, if not 'just in time', suppose we can hope there emerges a proper place for that, 'some time'.) But then it also reminds me what we'd of former noted also the importance by trees on these periods of time. 
 

...Once read an ecologist remarking that any single one tree is important of saved cons this oncoming climate-stressed world – Didn't quite take that statement for 'exactly truth', by then, some years ago. - Now I do, exactly true. - But let us write sometime later more chapters from, about the trees (But not at this present post.)
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...Also some thought, to occasionally from relieving my own conscient, troubled by these plastic burdens, at least a slight bit: Being enormously rich would've have to be for ecologically very demanding: Even if one would fill up a whole smaller notebook – about 100 pages - it wouldn't probably last for cover ones all daily 'plastic sins'. Direct and indirect caused. Of some made by yourself, and all else 'down the line', generated by those whom necessary participating in making you so (Means to increase one's wealth. Practically there's likely not a larger wealth on our present culture that'd not also for trace it's origins for some ecologically rather burdening past histories.) ; Suppose it obvious we all can't hope for to imitate those 'millionaires' in lifestyles – But it's even more dangerous, globally, if you'd learned to digest the repulsive idea that you should. That there wouldn't be anything very wrong at that. Well, so it my modest suggestion that (any) you just would benefit only to learn from kick out from your own any such co-lives. (Feel free to show the middle-finger too, if wish. It not much helps, but the consequences obviously then aren't to my any responsibility from... Don't mention to me of had played' w. such a thought...) 
 

; And after all, it's soon a 9 mrd populated world. Give that too some good thought instead, time to time. 

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"... It is ironic, therefore, that today I'm forced to declare that I consider the Möbius Loop to be in need of retirement. This has been a long time coming. As the plastic pandemic has unfolded before us, as a society we'we come to the stark realisation that it isn't as easy to recycle as we assumed. That's not easy for some to us to admit – I for one pride myself on being an excellent recycler. But over the last twelve months I've seen the Möbius Loop displayed on products from single-use coffee cups (when I know fever than one in every thousand is actually successfully recycled) to black plastic ready-meal trays that blend into the conveyor belt at the sorting facility, meaning that in most waste management facilities they can't be picked out for recycling without a great deal of effort or the arrival of new technology.

The once-cherished Möbius Loop, telling us that something could be, or has the potential to be recycled, now seems misleading. But it is liberally applied. ..." (; 113)

Siegle remarks, some places, also that in theory almost anything can be recycled. (It's mainly the question about from how much is needed invested in the process. The question from the efficiency and costs for.) ; But what might one then wish of see to 'proper' recyclement level, perhaps only from up to 50 per cent – Or as ambitiously imagined, for as high as some 80 per cent? (Seeems we're still far from either, but at least there's now more than (ever?) the increased attention on a better recyclement for many materials. New innovations...) 

(And believe me,) '...I mean no good to any man...'
 (Janis Joplin - Might that line be on the 'Turtle Blues' ? ; Can't recall, not of too sure for...) 
 

 ; Next is then going from concist merely of what the advices it gives from to reducin' your/mine very own plastic footprint. Some of those represented in form from those given guidelines for to replace that said now aged 'Möbius-loop'. In the book presented to some 'reinvented' 8R's-program, as there's eight abbreviative R's on it , all in all. ; Of course you'd find more practical to read those suggestions from the book itself. (...and I've merely written down these observations of mine from to be better able myself estimate at what the aspect I might have to devote more concern.) Despite that, thinkin' my few addit remarks maybe somewhat useful advice too. And quite as recommended if from yourself, little settling down and to write a comparable 'sin list' cons your own plastic footprint.

So: we should then devote the rest from this to our few very brief picks of each from those 8R-chapters. (But of course also making some – only few - my own remarks within some that followin'. And hopefully that then bit less of the citates, too...)

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...From first, at this new innovating 'R-guide', seems it bring on the sight: Record. 
 

...According to my any former experience...I've (often) noted from lackin' a necessary determination of make some sum up of the gathered plastics litters and even less good discovered myself of remembering then to adjust my further shopping behaviours, according to. ; ...But the advice is of course to the most sensible and it's also not anyhow demanding to keep some record of gathered plastic wastes, to the said few weeks time at least. ; Well, guess'll make a briefer simple list – I still think my personal plastic footprint ain't so that enormous there any need keep very strict detailed record about it. At least I try to avoid the waste, every instance when I'm at shops.

(Quite as good for advice, I think – But only long as you really intend and do appear consciouss about in the back from your mind, all the time.)

In the book given advice for keepin' track of your 'plastic footprint' seems simple as: "...you put aside fifteen minutes each day to register and record as much of the plastic that flows into your life as possible. Keeping your personal household diary for four weeks (or at least two weeks) will give you an invaluable, most probably schocking, perspective on your personal plastic footprint. " (; p. 122)

...'Guess I'm not bragging if I suppose to need only about 5 minutes for that 'sum up'. The schocking news then is that at following she seems to write that regular (average) family probably would be, during the given 'four weeks' time, running on about '...up to 1,500 items.' ; Of course, it's all too much. Wonder if that a British average (?)...What then might be, say, the U.S. 'comparable'? (But, no matter what the places, it is horribly much.)

On the Reduse-section, however, I instead think for make it quite close to the top scores. ; ...Long time now, fx, I actually never buy tomatos when packed in the plastic container. (I think such from be for the idiots.) Quite the same fits for my choices about else groceries 'and alike'. ...Even though it's then often rather difficult avoid in everything and I've not exactly kept so 'firm' to my choices on all items. (Or, not exactly for some Refusenik, must admit.) Often the selection, still, was for a non-plastic alternative - Even if that would've appeared of some reasons the 'less favored' one. (And, if there was such a choice for available.) ; Then – to the contrast – to an advice to buy rather in 'bulks', than by singular items, I'm bit less the good follower: It being only very logical (and practical), nothing to that. But from the yoghurts, 'and alike', I do tend sometimes (the 'occasional often') make a choice for fewsome smaller plastic packages. (Having to admit...Despite my said all strictly followed principles, fx on what comes to those items on groceries section.)

; But the inbearable burden written on some our modern developments, made in the name to these consumer "needs", is (and remain for), to the most frustaring: Last time I rambled on the juices and 'exctracts'-section at market, I think there was probably none - or at least only a fewsome for choice - without the plastic cappers. (Cappers to juices-packs? I think those for the idiots too, but w. this sort consumer economics for favored, what can we idiots do...?) The big bad "market brother" seems gotten us between the rock and hard place then: The only choices, only ecologically sensible alternatives available, I'd discover for, then were either to: a) buy the fruits only, and from to make from these the juices by oneself. (Practical but slight bit more expensive.) b) Alternatively, from to buy as extracts only. ...But those of large part available in the plastic bottles too, most part. Besides, good 'less sugarized' not the less costliest often. And then 'bottlega' seems then also often belong for these most numerous items that easily float within waters, large distances, and via rivers and other water routes – Even could then end up as far as to than that now notorious GPGP. (The positive p-o-w that at least those too nowdays are received to the recycling.)

....So guess'll can say for havin' enough anti-plastic 'strive' for to pass this test in smiling. – And the 'bad points' mostly not due because my own choices. Mostly, I mean. (...And of the plastic cappers added for almost any from card-board packages – What a culture of idiots this is...) 

[On the Right - An amount plastic litter I recognized from to produce in during only few days holidaying on log. ; ...Precisely, I wasn't any too cautious that time. - But, havin' sometimes spent there for as long as a weeks time (or at least a weekend), and the bin was actually less filled by the similar sort debris. (Which, in fact, gives the idea about that it being - very much - from about what the sort food-stuffs you buy. What amount the 'ready-mades' you at market choose for to pack on the bin.) ; Well...]  

Think I actually consider for from pretty concernedly, nowadays, on which shops, station I happen from enter to. But again, all the other choices aren't then from near that (quite) easy for make. Despite that, brings in mind, quite as meaningfull to say (admit), I mostly do my foods and groceries shoppings from bigger markets. Largely, I think, because there's not much other practical 'easy enough' alternatives for.

; Anyway, these days I even hate the Christmas. (Well...) not 'devotedly', cons from remaining enough for adjusted on this system to remain essentially rather quite obedient to these hypocrate (religious) double-standards, (at least what comes to) this very christian party. And after all it's the kids party. These days. And despite it even so that one of the best things about kids is that them rarely think about tomorrow. Curiously there's something very resemblant to that in the very same characteristics at place on a capitalistic economy – Or say, at the present 'capitalizing' form of life: Nevermind about tomorrow... - But hope you don't take any that for too personally... Maybe I've just now gotten for frustrated at these snowless X-mas's. (Or maybe I'm just...too bold? Strictly taking, you might've found on this too plenty questions, and probably too little suggestions. Still, from all the amounts, yearly, to this wastefull packaging ...How about yourself? Too bold, or too old ? (For care.)

However, there's also other good advices at book, actually many from that I've already earlier taken to follow:) 'buy the loose veg!' (; Yes, it's very sensible a suggestion...Even if I'd possibly still often make the selection from carrots, potato's in the plastic packet. But I never take the plastic bag for fruits. In fact, cons those, it would be best of bring along resusable from fabric by your own. Or decompostable bio-bags.) ; 'keep it simple.', ...ao. ; And, to avoid those 'take away and fast food packaging' – I mostly do. (Not the less important motivator for, I then read from this it said that 'acc the beach clean data...one of the top ocean plastic scourges'.) ; By the way, I also strongly recommend for to avoid plastic lids on coffee-cups - Thinkin those designed only for the idiots too... ('Cause them, exclusively, are of...plastics.) In case couldn't do without, you'd not likely to find a common ground w. me. :) ...If in a hurry when 'fueling', I've not any ultimate suggestion of how to treat this issue. At least, in case from having left your Keepcup home. 

(Nowadays, I prefer the the 'Need Cup' – By my own, introduced on this, soon as possible – If happen to acquire some decent photo of that...)  [Pic; The 'Need Cup' - Havin' paid some attention on this littering, wasteful issue, of personally I noticed, the solution indeed wasn't in need from very difficult to create. (Doesn't mean I wouldn't think some KeepCup quite as practical, probably happens just that I recognized this easier from available to this urgent need. ...'Suppose, the cup ain't even of recyclable materials - some sort hard plastic, don't know what exactly...But doesn't really matter, this case - 'Cause it small enough to keep at (larger) pocket to trousers, or at the bag (side-pocket). ...Doesn't probably keep the drink from too warm well-long - But you may have  noted; I'm not anyhow meticulous pedant of such minor details...]

; Yet, how about just spending few minutes not in a hurry for anywhere ? Although, has to say, of personally I often rather just go.  We'll never mind the rest about, on that, but the lids are - I think - just...unnecessary litter.

; For the last glance, problem still relates largely to this present maintained shopping system, because it also says: "A Supermarket economy means plastic ecology. Supermarkets are responsible for pushing out 800,000 tonnes of plastic packaging a year." (; p. 135)
 

Replace: Scoring poorly (on this) too. ...'Suppose. ...So shying away and I'm not saying much on. ; I kind of notice had found little time for to seek from many good alternatives to the products I've maybe gotten on a habit from to use. 'Guess, I couold at least say for my defenses that I've kept it firm from using a regular toothbrush and not from changed to any battery-charged maccinas. (Not thinkin those too for idiots, but seems it there at least from suggested to; "...put these in the bin, as we want them to be dealt with properly; lightweight, durable and streamlined, they are almost made for oceans and can travel thousands of miles. Next time, make a better choice: my latest toothbrush is a bamboo version (albeit with nylon bristles) from savesomegreen.co.uk" (; 149) Bamboo? Sounds like a good idea – Suppose I'll make my way next time for the local ecoshops if there'd be some available. Maybe could even be at sales on shopping centres, these days (Though, I little doubt that...) There's not any reason for a tootbrush to be from plastic. (Seems it also said for belong on those items that all too easily 'float'.)

; In addition, thankfully, seems it then said that the age of microbeads by the time of writing was (finally) coming for it's end. ('At its peak, every years 680 tonnes of microbeads were used in cosmetic products for the Uk market.'; p. 150) ; And (,further in addit), after for having read more detailed about shampoos and other from that sort stuffs I (resultantly) changed for good (completely) off the usual market-sold products. Ie, for the complete nature-based, from the ecological ingredient manufactured. - Besides from the fact that my hair now was lot happier to the choice, I'd guess also the frogs, salamanders (very much) were. You should be not much surprised to find that said decision having made my washings and 'shampooing' some plenty cheaper, too.

...Refuse 
 ; It sounds to some easiest practical choice,
 recommendable and to a good attitude on. Yet, not so very many are perhaps motivated enough from follow.

(Which an easy guess. Even if it not possible to followed 'totally' – At least the largest part from those '1,500 items' should appear of to be suggested for easily refusable. Would make your life lot less governed by the stuff, besides....)

; Alongside w. that (for a maintained practice), that 'grandad behavior', some 'everyday' protesting – or from the 'every other day' – sounds quite as realisable suggestable from followed. (And it seems from havin's gained some followin' too. Although, the subsequent (paragraph) is in the book provided w. an added sentences from 'Watch out though...' ;

"...The so-called 'plastic attack' in Bath netted three entire trolleys-full of plastic, reinforcing the point that there is an alarming excess. ...Protesters tend to bring their own reusable containers and transfer products into them. Milk is poured into glass bottles, cheese liberated from plastic and put into greaseproof paper. I like the way this moves the conversation on, as it then becomes about alternatives and a different way of shopping, and is not purely supermarket-bashing. ..."

; [And, quite as well...] "I urge you to write down your own plastic list of shame. These are the products you wish to excise from your life. Pin it to the fridge or cupboard, and use it as a statement of intent. No more will get past your threshold!" (; p. 161)

; Don't forget to add to that list the every other item you bought from not checking/thinking the possible plastic waste materials which might've been used for it's manufacture – Although, I don't admit from feel any (so called) plastic shames, exactly. As I said at the above, the poor shouldn't neither take shames about the rich from not bothering. At least, w. all my prior presented 'reserves and cautions' maintained when shopping/at the foods market – I choose not to.

Still, reminded, that don't let it either lead you to more careless littering habit – If fact, on that you'd only be imitating the rich, wealthy, and lazy class. (That, laziness, also being one of the principal reasons why we have the problem from this plastic 'economy' to it's present levels, of course.) Try for reduce your plastic footprint, on every level.

...The preceded said also leads me being reminded about that I recognized on noted the described Chinese ban for imported wastes from foreign countries to the most encouraging. It seem from say; "In July 2017, the Chinese government announced a clampdown on 'foreign carbage'. To get slightly more technical, that meant bringing in tight contamination limits on twenty categories of scrap, especially waste paper and plastic. ...between 2012 and January 2018, when the limits were enforced we [UK] shipped more than 2.7 million tonnes of plastic scrap to mainland China and Hong Kong. ...China's new drive towards reducing pollution meant that it really was kicking the dirtiest recycling out. All but the cleanest bottles and other materials would be accepted, the rest would be refused entry. The ban was enforced just in time to deal with the aftermath of our biggest plastic and waste hotspot: Christmas.

...Behind the scenes experts tell me that councils are being forced to stockpile waste plastics while they urgently look for new markets that are not so fussy about the quality of their waste imports. Those markets are likely to include Sri Lanka and Vietnam, where there is a huge lack of recycling infrastructure." (; 63-4.)

; ...Even that I wouldn'thave much the idea whether example having had any larger followin, at any so called 'developing economies'. (Nor if those remarked, expectable?, changes on destinations only thenafter merely been taken place. Guess we'd benefit from have had a few looks from the issue, to more recent by...) ...But anycase, I'm strongly to an opinion that my fellow citizens on these Northern economies only would greatly benefit for discover the real costs about their excessicely anti-ecologic footprint at their own solving. Means the amounts plastic crap generated and other 'pass away' wastes, plus other 'returns' of their thorough consumerist lifes and lifestyles. And not 'sold elsewhere', off their sight. 

; Let us suppose some parts the actual solutions at this issue might've also been reached, as the more effective reuse and recyclement cultures are of constant advancin'. But until the recycling culture really achieves what the obvious 'target-level' (Should we say, from like the '60 to 80 per cent' ?) -- What could serve as the more suggestable ecological advice than of to refuse. Only suggested - Saves you from lot part troubling your head where you should 'storage' all the collected 'trash'.

...How then...about that Refill ? ; Well, kind of still 'lookin' for, since I find myself not (as yet) to had sought out, or discovered, whether there'd my localhoods any 'refilling station' to fx the Ecover-washing liquid bottles (Some that I'm nowadays using.) ; ...The book seems give for an address from weblink [Some plasticisrubbish.com/2015/08/refill-stores/ - However, not had the time from check that about. ...Only wondering whether it has any practical use from outside that GB.] ; Good idea from to rejecting all those standard (phospatic) washings powders – That usual sort, lot adverted on TV's, but actually costs more than some of the more ecological choices would. To the good alternatives for the latter mentioned we can at least also mention, fx, Soap knots. ; Against the uses of all sort the regular usual sold 'chemial cleaners' (to the house-hold uses) one might as well find to source for some 'food of thought' that usually small printed text (,when considering whether or not to buy); 'Can be harmful for the small specim. at the watery environments'.

...But then remembering we in the northern Europes used for have this most comprihensive bottles recycling culture. Since well long past, and it still works to (quite) effectively as a practical and beneficial refillables system. (The usual comparable mentioned seems often be on to that Briton recylabling from the 'morning milks'. Or the milkman refillables, as they perhaps say...) ; Anyway, perhaps might be of some use from cite (briefly) the given look at the past histories (How it seems from gotten worse from, declined and not anymore from so complete and effective.) Of course it's for the more often presented 'case histories', but says it plainly well, so; "... The refillable culture was once completely instinctive. Only a generation ago, mandatory deposit schemes for bottles and refillable containers were commonplace. In fact, the system was set up to work this way. But soft drinks manufacturers didn't like this sustainable status quo, and by 1979 Coca-Cola and Pepsi had between 1.5 billion and 1.7 billion plastic soft drinks bottles on the US market, and were making inroads into other territories. The records show that they had to lobby quite hard for equal shelf space with refillables (namely glass), raising challenges on competition and unfair trade grounds. It worked: acts were amended, legislation changed and plastic bottles began to flood into our lives. As consumers, we took to them – too well, in fact.

Refill culture never quite died out in the way, I suspect, many multinationals wish it had. ..." (; 175-6)

...It can, probably, be argumented against the 'refillables' that the plastic bottles are more safe choice than an other alternative. Quite so, I actually know of some experience about. (Ie, w. the "less safe" choice meaning that for only other common alternative the containers manufactured from glass.) ; But, besides that, there still is also that troubling issue, already from mentioned, repeatedly, that plastic containers are apt travelling those vast distances via waters, as them tend float. The development from this modern system, the market created intentionally said forms, direction, may have meant the less costs for the coca-cola, and alongside the result was that refillables are indeed more rare. And even it seems that the single-uses from the plastic containers then having become...some standard. Less of the bottles recycling, automatically – And despite any our modern inventiness or some solutions often occasional adverted – still lot seems still from to end up in environments. (...Besides, that drink is bad for the teeth too, by the way. I never drink that.)

Practically there not any actual reasons why the whole lot wouldn't still use the recyclable, refillable bottles. Enlarge the same even for to recycling from juices, and some other comparable items packing, and you'd have pretty well-functioning recycling economy. Material save, plastics avoided. The objection, possibly, most often referred to must be the increased needed transports and emissions, probably. But given that same trucks that bring the products also havin' to drive the routes back to factories...It's actually only more of a question about what is valued most. ; So, I suggest it might be not sensible, any level, for to buy your soft drinks on plastic bottles. At least not on non-recyclable (Or from multinationals, anycase, btw.) ; 'But how about my kids then'...Well, it probably only tastes better if they learn for drink little less of the 'soda-pop'...

; More generallt, in practice to some time it seems from gone to the wrong direction and not well maintain (or develop) the existed refill systems. And hence the reasons the consumers increasingly actually should make their choices more on basis the ecologic reasoning – If they'd want to have any chance for it. (But I recall also how tasty was that old days lemonade, at my childhood - Unfortunately...they don't have that on the market anymore.)

Rethink ; ... Is about something one then should maintain from all the way from after  discovering one's one's anti-plastic 'inner self'. ; Soforth, since we'd already said this plenty on: Only fewsome practical, easy-to-follow remarks. The book gives us some guidances in form from the 'check garment labels', 'throw plastic free parties', 'lobby the airlines', 'straws must be paper'. ...And why not. As some additional simple advices there's (for suggestions); If there's glass, always favor that as the choice. Metals as well, but I think it's less often to a comparable choice.

Try to favor the recyclables produced products, whenever you buy (In case can afford that.) ; Think and find out what's for true and whats not. To some examples, the recycled plastics were adverted as used parts on manufacture from my eco-phone (,once I acquired when it still was quite novel solution for materials, apparently.). ...And for material seems if of proved from well lasting on the use. In fact much better than at much those 'use and buy newer' models ever from repeatedly brough to markers by the most multinationals. Means that I was bit suspectable about those recycled plastics, by early days – But only means that now later after I've actually only felt that for some my best buys. Not the least of the durability from materials from chosed. (Ie; proved well that such items from recycled materials can be made sustainably enough.)

Then comparably: It's indeed true that almost anything is decompostable, depending on time invested on the process. Those 'decompostable' bags for the veggies (and biowaste) seems indeed from decay – But only notable that it taking some (lot) of a time. Quite as ineffective to decompose as those biodegradable napkins mentioned at that Siegle. Recognized that as I was discoverin' these said 'biobags' of the compost for several years after – And not very much to had decayed, as yet. (So I actually stopped carrying biowaste w. those to that.) Still thinkin' it's of course more recommended than plastic bags – Which still also populate our veggies section, on shops. Indeed it a good idea to carry one's own usable biobags along to veggies-section – You'd only need of remember have that along when goin' shops.

So that Rethink...Feels it needs to be maintained, all the way, 'all-around' to your daily behaviours. ; ...Can't avoid, furthermore in addit, for to say that from those 'recycled material' plastic shopping bags...I've not noted from had had any need to market plastic bags to several years, decades by now. Neither should you. Use fabrics instead, not much a trouble to carry, for shops. But let us guess that having gotten, finally, in uses largely similarly as from other recent diminute improvements – to some 'facade', the so called 'modern ecologism' seems often invest only where that's cheapest. We all should just alienate ourselves from that sort false ecologism.

...Before running out of time (and papers), we still have the place on the recommends/examples about that most needed developed solution from, to:

Recycle. ; Very plainly, (it so) that cons the futures the better recycling is not just from some need to. It's very simply a principle humanity should adapt to if we wish for make it from for real to start for solving the issues now troubling us. Start to actually begin make any about that 'better tomorrow'. ; I kind of remember...how in the 1990s I did greet w. the hope and enthusiasm that there was a new plastics collecting and 'litter-boxes' at my (then) locality. The 'change for better' was finally seen from taken place. However, not from very long after the whole phenomena sudden died out - Apparent as quickly as it (locally) had from emerged, to be later it ended to the hampers and diffulties from a sorting out the plastic items. Or, maybe, it also had smtgh to do w. this now noted rise from cursed wasteful new dominant multinational market capitalism. (Don't know what were the said difficulties, by exact.) As I now read of the Siegle, the better solutions are now ever more from discovered, and, new automated sorting technologies can far better carry the job on modern recycling plants – But as usual, also noted the amount from generated plastic wastes even exceeds any that capacity. (So it also says of recyclement, by present, from very compact, fx, that: '...we're a long way from that ideal future.' )

Nowadays, I must notice, to had largest part followed the adopted far less ambitious "solutions" from that (plastics) incineration. Supposin' that largest part of my house-hold plastic wastes still goes for that manner from an "after-processing". But, indeed, it sounds for the least thought-out system from to treat this large problem of the plastics. Least ambitious, at least, obviously. Nowadays we here at least seem finally from to have the collecting from plastics again for arranged. (...Which I can't still avoid from recognize for a big step itself. Even if the priority would, should be the better and smarter way of reprocess that consumerist wastes. As much as possible.) ; From related, to the aspect, Siegle seems write from followingly:

"Waste-to-energy incineration has undergone what they might call in marketing a 'brand refresh'. ...are demanding beasts. They are an expensive investment and they need to be fed with rubbish – and that locks us into using them for the foreseeable future. ...Since its inception in 1971, Friends of the Earth has worked on waste and resources and has always taken a dim view of incineration because the process releases emissions into the environment. Based especially on CO2 emissions, Friends of the Earth has long considered waste-to-energy plants to be 'climate damaging' technology... But concern also centres on the potential prioritising of incineration over recycling. It comes down to a simple choice: do we deed incinerators or do we think smarter? ...will our investment in energy from waste plants mean that we will not have the incentive to capitalize on newer, smarter thinking?" (; 62-3)

...Maybe there's even some better ratio at this production of the enrgy from the generates amount wastes, the plastics and other sort. ; But anycase, it really doesn't look like any 'Jack-of-all-trades' to these climate-problems, fx. More like some among those modern types sort from the Jack-in-the-box. And yes, of course we'd need for to think smarter on this.

...About that recycling from materials (instead of burning them until for the ends of the world, or merely out the world until the raw materials run out)...it seems...at least of the given examples of Britain's part there indeed being many seeds and promises. Some recognizable, already by now. (As the usual, the real change possibly is uncertain to realize during your own life-times, but for the most part still it seems give that encouraging impression.) 
 

; Of course, my few followin' picks are just some amongst, several else examples could've been contained on this, too.

; The 'Pinky' bins and collecting from the chewing gums (recycled, to the manufactured for items and prods), doesn't really fill me w. much interest – nor enthusiasm. Not that I'd think any idea from recyclement completely unimportant. ; However...If I just collect my chewing gums for the container – say, fx at one those disgracefully plasticized covertly 'paperine' coffee-mugs – And then, after some amounts time it filled 'till the edges, send it for incineration? Suppose, any way you might look at that, result probably more energy-savy and anycase none from my chewing gums then ended for environments harm. (Releases on the burnin' minimal.)

...But from some inventions that really look to have all the potential for 'make it by this day' (or at that better tomorrow at least) - There seems remarked fx about terracycle (.co.uk). Said from (that): "company's recycling repertoire ranges from the niche – disposable painting overalls (made from plastic fibre)... [etc.]" ; And (said) "Earlier I wrote that technically anything is recyclable. It is really a question of how much energy and money you are prepared to throw at the problem. Recycling company TerraCycle is testament to this fact. I first came across this innovative company that specialises in hard-to-recycle materials when I was reporting on pods for coffee machines. These are tricky little pieces of kit in terms of recycling; not only you do have an aluminium-foil pod, but you also have to grapple with the coffee grinds and a secretive thin film of plastic." (; 207)

Kind of a system we indeed seem to be in needs from...

...Some among the few rising new recyclement brand that I've come by – and can then mention w. a better familiarity to – certainly is Lush. It seems that fx from followin' that practical system now by years adverted on the Body Shop, and recycles for refill your used cosmetic bottles. Besides, also; "Ninety per cent of its packaging is made from recycled material, including all Lush bottles and pots." (; 207) 
 

; From even more important, did discover it only very true that one solid shampoo bar bought appears a far better choice to those many liquid containers (w. plastic bottlega and the usual unnecessities.) After all, that's how the washing soaps and shampoos from originally were for manufactured. And plastics, also wrapping papers, only later were brought to the consumer market. ...Says it about that too (that) one "...shampoo bar provides up to a hundred hair washes, so that displaces the equivalent of three 200 ml bottles of standard liquid shampoo.' (Of some time use I've also noticed that their 'solid hampoo' being very usable product. Despite the now common suspicion about such stuffs being 'messy', it all the else for. All my experiences about having been only very positive. Easy to carry along, I've not even needed any additional 'box' to, but a paper-bag it was bought at. (But it seems from advisable to use for not a complete 'air-tight' a box.) ; ..And if there was such a good alternatives to those 'big but ugly brands', way to reduce the amounts unnecessary waste, plastic esp., why not then to use that instead? Even if that wouldn't be good enough them seem also from offer the 'toothpastes in jars', (and that) 'conditioner and shampoo in bars rather than bottles'. ; If you can save yourself the trouble of collecting that vast number plastic non-recycled bottles (that usually fill the foot-space from showers, toilet) why buy that stuff? Why not just kick those worn-out anti-solutions to anything outta your life, for once and permanently...

So, nowadays actually all for the idea, big fan for that Lush. (Almost 'Lustful and lashful'...)

; ...There could, of course, be lots else for remarked about the modern recyclement. The ideas and innovations. But as I'm not quite any innovationist at the field and my own plastic avoidance and recycling might indeed need some sort reorganizing, I've mostly relied on to cite from these some solutions adverted. Besides the same concerns about the most else said to this. Not 'for the record', but what's from recognizable. And; what's simpler often being also from to the more ecological. 

The further mention for 'olfactory marketing' I make not w. the purpose for any adverting about – I only think for that the city-air usually smells bad enough. A bit of an extra natural fresh fragnances doesn't bother me at all.

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"...In the round open space the dark house stood, without one single greent twig or leaf to shelter it; shadeless and shelterless in the heart of shade and shelter. Some of the windows were rudely boarded up, with boards nailed straight up and down; and those rooms were utterly empty, and never were entered, though they were doorless. But often, from the echoing corridor, I gazed into them with fear; for the great fire-places were all in ruins; the lower tier of black-stones were burnt into one white, common crumbling; and the black bricks above had long extinguished fires. Every hearth-stone in that house had one long crack through it; every floor drooped at the corners; and outside, the whole base of the house, where it rested on the low foundation of greenish stones, was strewn with dull, yellow moulderings of the rotting sills. No name; no scrawled or written thing; no book, was in the house; no one memorial speaking of its former occupants. It was dumb as death. No grave-stone, or mound, or any little hillock around the house, betrayed any past burials of man or child. And thus, with no trace then to me of its past history, thus it hath now entirely departed and perished from my slightest knowledge as to where the house so stood, or in what region it so stood. None other house like it have I ever seen. But once I saw the plates of the outside of French chateaux which powerfully recalled its dim image to me, especially the two rows of small dormer windows projecting from the inverted hopper-roof. But that house was of wood, and there of stone. Still, sometimes I think that house was not in this country, but somewhere in Europe; perhaps in France; but it is all bewildering to me; and so you must not start at me, for I can not but talk wildly upon so wild a theme." ;

"...There seemed people about me, some of whom talked one, and some of the other; but I talked both; ... The men who- as it sometimes dreamily seems to me at time – often climbed the three strange tree-like things, they talked – I needs must think – if indeed I have any real thought about so bodiless a phantom as this is – they talked the language which I speak of as this time gradually waning in me. It was a bonny tongue; oh, seems to me so sparkling-gay and lightsome; just the tongue for a child like me, if the child had not been so sad always. It was pure children's language, Pierre; so twittering - such a chirp." (Melville),

...from Pierre, or The Ambiguities (Novel p 1852; p. 115, 117.)

'Disordered, hasty supper on half-cooked pork chops...' [; This citate not via that Siegle, btw.] '

; After this much reading did discover that on my recycling practices - Them indeed might gain, somewhat, of a bit of rethink. Recognized on myself lot of the characteristics for sort 'Ultimate Refusenik'. ; But from the total absolute total no'ist for the plastics – Guess' I'm still seekin' my 'inner self', of that part.

...But it (the book) gives some clue to idea that better recycling from materials was at least from increasingly now emerging, finally. On above presented the question from what the level it then would be estimable to realise – 50 per cent, even up to 80 per cent? ; Hard to say, 'cause the present 'state of things' has, probably, the more simultant variants than ever before: Human population growth still expected continue some decades. (The emerging economies of the 'Global south' most usual mentioned of their massive amounts new consumers to target, and said from appear 'promising' for these – still present, largely -wasteful markets and marketings.) ; The Climates. ; ...And if any past developments should be looked from some 'guidance': The greener, more ecologic improvements seem most often been well received, even supported, but from their lasting in the adequate organized and maintained uses from – That seems appeared from lot less certain. (; At the many more dense populated regions of the world that then also unavoidably shall became for an issue of even more of the importance. Naturally depending, lot, from what the manner those shall develop their economies and 'markets' – From 'consumeristic', or 'sustained ecological'-weighed. Inadequate termings, but can't invent from better by this instance.) ; The 21^st century, 'information age'. ; And what else...?

One might, these days, also think for plastic 'problema' of some minor urgency – If compared to the ever-discussed climatice issues. Quite correct, but such as was noted it also, very much, relates for these issues too. It not goes down to any singular issues; More so that the advanced modern economy – some actually to offer any solutions to this global warming-problem – needs for emerge 'all-the-way', on all levels at the society. (Such as the 'main topic', emphasized at that book by Klein too, on above briefly mentioned.) ; In combined – If for want the real change, the path towards that often adverted but still not seen cleaner 'fossil free futures' – You actually need for reject the plastics too. Or, even need start a campaign behalf the plastics reducin' by yourself. ; In the end of the book Siegle also mentions there now some modern, experimental plastic-free communities. Doesn't sound from any that 'far out' as the idea...Equally wonderin', whether them would get to very popular, fromafter a few generations...?

Important is not to accept. Totally as possible. (No jokin', I really think so.) There plentiful separate choices possible to make there. Some that havin' made my life happier, even if much part mentioned here maybe realizing on a level for plenty 'little choices'. ; Avoid from, not for a part of my/your 'every-day', or, it (certainly) shouldn't appear only to sort 'plastics as usual'. The everyday choices. ; G.U.J.

; Signed by Doktor Docto-Power

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