The #environmental issue of “single-use plastics” haunts the public imagination like a spectral wolf. There’s #plastic in grocery bags, obviously, but also in yoga pants, car tires and building materials and toys and medical products. So what’s the solution? Apparently it’s stretchy seaweed, reverse vending machines, and QR-coded take-out boxes. What do you think the solution is to breaking society’s absurd addiction to single-use plastics? Have your say in the comments.
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