June 30, 201610 yr Yikes. This is a scary thought. More Plastic than Fish by 2050 Around eight million tons of plastic enter the marine environment each year, and the figure is set to rise. The Ellen Macarthur Foundation estimates that 311 million tons of plastic were produced in 2014, which will double within 20 years, and projects that there will be more plastic than fish in the oceans by 2050.
June 30, 201610 yr I wish companies would cut down on packaging. Some products seem to need a chain saw to open. I'm sure there is a reason that the overly package products, but I don't know what it is. It's sad, what we continue to do to our world.
June 30, 201610 yr I wish companies would cut down on packaging. Some products seem to need a chain saw to open. I'm sure there is a reason that the overly package products, but I don't know what it is. It's sad, what we continue to do to our world. Those heavy plastic and hard to open packages are almost always because of theft related to those items. Any easy opening package is ripe to be stolen unfortunately.
June 30, 201610 yr One huge problem is that a lot of the world has no way to deal with left over plastics. They either dump them or burn them, neither of which is ideal. There needs to be some advances in recycling that makes it easier and more affordable for these countries. The US has issues to clean up as well but when it comes to the mess in the oceans I'd say we are a very small part of the problem.
June 30, 201610 yr Those heavy plastic and hard to open packages are almost always because of theft related to those items. Any easy opening package is ripe to be stolen unfortunately. I have a "Mini maglight pro" siting here in it's package at my desk. Opened another one up yesterday, even with good scissors it was hard. The packaging could definitely be cut down 35-40% of what it is while still providing security, in my humble opinion.
June 30, 201610 yr A buddy of mine scolds me every time he sees me with a water bottle. He loves to remind me that the tap water in Williamstown is safe to drink.
June 30, 201610 yr I believe it, we have a recycling bin at work for plastic bottles and recently I've been saving all my bottles from home so I can dispose properly. Check out a google picture of the ocean trash vortex.
June 30, 201610 yr True story...I was fishing 12 miles off shore last month. It was beautiful, clear water. Then...a plastic bottle floats by. It's crazy that people have no respect for Earth.
June 30, 201610 yr A buddy of mine scolds me every time he sees me with a water bottle. He loves to remind me that the tap water in Williamstown is safe to drink. What irks me are people and commercials that give a bad rap for water bottles and not soft drink bottles. Yeah, soft drink bottles are different. :lol2:
June 30, 201610 yr What irks me are people and commercials that give a bad rap for water bottles and not soft drink bottles. Yeah, soft drink bottles are different. :lol2: I don't really do soft drinks, so there's that, but you're right. Gatorade as well, not to mention almost anything used in the shower, kitchen, garage, etc...
June 30, 201610 yr A buddy of mine scolds me every time he sees me with a water bottle. He loves to remind me that the tap water in Williamstown is safe to drink. Sure it is.
June 30, 201610 yr I have a "Mini maglight pro" siting here in it's package at my desk. Opened another one up yesterday, even with good scissors it was hard. The packaging could definitely be cut down 35-40% of what it is while still providing security, in my humble opinion. I'm sure it could...many manufacturers want to put a lot of info on their packaging for advertisement sake, which leads to more packaging than needed. Walmart, which I am the most familiar with, started an initiative about 10 years ago to reduce packaging and waste. Currently over 70% of waste at the stores is recycled, everything from cardboard, plastic wrap, aluminum and even the oil from the chicken fryer. Another thing they did is started working with vendors to reduce packaging...one thing that came out of that is smaller jugs of "Ultra" type detergents. Most of the contents used to be water, but working with P&G and others a lot of water was removed thus giving us the same amount of detergent in smaller bottles. Bottled water used to come in boxes, now it comes shrink wrapped in plastic that weighs a fraction of what the boxes did. Just about every item you see in a store outside of fresh food that is shrink wrapped used to come in a cardboard box...that's a lot of trees saved and a lot of fuel saved transporting lighter freight.
June 30, 201610 yr What irks me are people and commercials that give a bad rap for water bottles and not soft drink bottles. Yeah, soft drink bottles are different. :lol2: Agreed...what also irks me is that a bottle of water cost as much as a bottle of Coke. One bottle is filled with just filtered water. One bottle is alos filled with filtered water plus corn syrup and a secret recipe of flavorings. Now how in the world do they cost the same? I used to have this argument with my Coke and Pepsi salesmen all of the time over the cost of Aquafina and Dasani. :banghead:
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