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Plastics industry heats world 4 times as much as air travel, report finds

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  1. 11.1% is the estimated percent of the population that flew in 2018, pretty sure 99.99% of the world population uses plastics.

  2. Make all plastics highly reflective so that litter can offset its own climate impact

  3. I’m just surprised by how much air travel ‘heats the world’ then. Wtf is that title? Do people usually think producing plastic is an ecologic thing?

  4. Those darn plastic companies and their cheap, lightweight, reliable products that we all use every single day

  5. For some this is news, and for others this is what we’ve been trying to warn everyone. I hate plastic. I’d go back to wood fired and no tv if I could afford it to avoid plastic

  6. Plastic is a slowly killing poison… and its consequences will be very much lethal .

  8. And my local recycling plant will no longer take glass. Fucking plastic winds every time.

  10. Who cares what pollutes the most if fuck all is done about it?
    Or is that just an attempt at shifting the blame so air travel doesn’t have to make any effort?

  11. Well seeing as how everything has some amount of plastic in it these days it’s not surprising

  12. Any post about an oil spill inevitably draws out an astroturf campaign pushing the angle that everything runs on fossil fuels including plastics and any notion of *not* using fossil fuels and making things out of plastics is utterly ridiculously impossible.

    99% of all travel used to be powered by animals, and made out of wood. (I made this up but it’s probably true.) And yet, things changed. Maybe the horse and wood industries didn’t have all the advantages the oil industry has today to fight the change to cleaner energy and materials. But I have to hope change is inevitable anyway.

  14. Shhh. Ignore all the massive corporations from countries all over the world that are polluting the Earth. Focus on that guy driving a large truck. Slash his tires. That is how you solve global climate change.

  15. It’s also responsible for 100% of the microplastics in our water

  17. Well, it would, It’s a much bigger and more pervasive industry.

    Most clothing is plastic. Most packaging in the store is plastic. All of your food comes in plastic. All composite materials use plastic. There isn’t a boat or a car or bicycle that doesn’t use plastic. Everything that you own has plastic in it.

    Better the carbon in the plastic stay sequestered.in the plastic rather than get biodegraded and added to the carbon cycle.

  19. If air travel is keeping pace with the plastics industry that closely … we must be well and truly … not in a good position.

    Either the plastics industry is way underrated OR air industry pollution is absolutely deplorable and should be curtailed drastically

  20. I love plastic. I only eat with plastic utensils, only drink from plastic bottles, drive a cheap car made of 90% plastic, and much more. Even when I have a can of soda, I will take the soda and pour it into a plastic cup to drink it in plastic instead. Plus it’s durable and lasts forever usually. It’s a wonder invention

  21. No more fucking plastic please!! Fuck off with your shit product destroyed the planet

  22. This just in the commercial air travel industry results in X amount more pollution than Private Jets!

    Context matters and the amount of plastic produced/used in the world is incomparable even to the entire aerospace industry.

  23. Nobody cares about these stats… Any efforts made towards these will only delay the doomsday not avert it

  24. Why can’t we go back to glass at least that can actually can be reused

  25. Yeah but plastic is the one thing 8 billion people have in common besides being human.

  29. Genuine question, not trying to make a statement, how much carbon is sequestered in plastics that we bury in landfills or other waste? Is this a significant amount compared to what they produce?

  32. We are all going to die in the next 30 years…aren’t we….

  34. Leo Baekeland “I invented Bakelite, the first fully synthetic plastic!”

    Charles Baekeland “Oh? it contained no molecules found in nature, how does it decompose?”

    Leo Baekeland “Don’t worry about that now, I’m going to be rich!”

  35. but its totally the little guy’s job to make all the changes right?

  37. I have an IdEa!!!! Lets wrap bananas and apples in PlASTic!!!

  38. We so badly need to Pareto, 80/20 rule this stuff.

    The worst offenders and easiest to replace, do so.

    Standardise bottles and make them glass, reusable.

    Sell anything loose that can be sold loose.

    It doesn’t have to be perfect immediately but it has to be better than three tiny lettuce heads in a plastic tray in a plastic bag (right next to beautiful lettuce heads loose).

    It has to be better than 200g of mushrooms in a plastic tray wrapped with clingfilm.

    It has to be better than fucking tetrapak.

  39. What would be the carbon footprint of the materials we’d use instead such as aluminum and glass? Better or worse?

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