“I once tried to use a paper bag,” said one of the Americans. “Oh my god, oh my god, etc etc, something, something”… I don’t quite make out – it doesn’t matter… but they are very collegial with each other. “Would you like two? Since you have two dogs.” To my right there is a lady in exercise wear with 2 dogs who have just shat on the steps leading into the café I’m at. “Excuse me, you wouldn’t have a spare bag, would you?” Good on Malaysia I say… Anyway, I was reading the article and a conversation occurred beside me. It was about Malaysia not taking (importing) anymore waste, rubbish, technically recyclable stuff if only it were recycled, from Australia and elsewhere, to be dumped in there own landfill sites. S o, how’s this for coincidence – I was reading an article while having a coffee… autumn morning sun… crisp, nice. This article should ask the product makers and suppliers, and not just lump fault on the public. The article ignores this and the question I ask is WHY? No matter how much I want to buy that thing that is not wrapped in plastic, or buy one that is not made of plastic, I am unable to, because they don’t exist when there is no real good reason for them not to exist in organic form. As I have experienced, I am trying really really hard, but the corporations who make and sell the products are the main problem… That is where government regulation should take over and force companies to do the right thing, because otherwise they will go for the CHEAPEST option of packaging… the role of the government is to regulate society so that it doesn’t kill itself with greed. It is not totally up to the consumer, only fractionally. This throwaway approach is having much more serious consequences and the report shows really simple ways to avoid this problem and stop plastic pollution.” “Our discarded plastic enters rivers from litter generated by our on-the-go lifestyle and items we flush down toilets. Here is a quote from the article.“The products we buy every day are contributing to the problem of ocean plastic,” said Jo Ruxton, chief executive of Plastic Oceans UK. It’s sort of at BS levels.īought one of those steaks from the dumb butcher I was telling you about… the other guy was shut on a Sunday… thought the steak only had a little plastic around the edge… turns out it is actually a 2.5cm wide piece of 4 metre long piece of plastic wrapped around the meat… A few fails on the weekend… bread etc, ran out, no fresh bread. So far,I have been able to do it to a degree… But not totally. I t’s really hard, or even impossible to get rid of plastic (single use). PR companies are the problem, and a roadblock to any solution!Īvoiding single use plastic at the present time is impossible, until these deceivers are stopped and products are forced with government regulation to change. We know the problems, tell us the solution.
Even as their ad was inducing guilt in viewers for spreading trash, Keep America Beautiful’s members were fighting legislation that could have done much to address the problem. Although the “ Indian” who tears up when he sees a bag of litter thrown on the ground was really an Italian-American actor with a feather stuck in his hair, the ad’s sneakier deception was that its expression of concern about pollution was brought to the airwaves by many of the same companies that produced the pollution. In 1971, Keep America Beautiful, an anti-litter organization formed by beverage and packaging companies, including PepsiCo, Coca-Cola, and Phillip Morris, teamed up with the Ad Council to create the now-infamous “Crying Indian” ad.
The plastic packaging industry are sneaky so and so’s, right up there with the cigarette industry… demoralising… (Read below). “Angry, angry, this and that, that and this, on and on he goes… blah, blah, blah, blah blah” he kept talking…īut Im ignoring him and talking to the person serving me.Īnyway, this is the deal… things are not looking good and my theory about the corporation being the one who has to be targeted and not the customers has been validated. “Well what did they do before plastic?” I say “It’s just not practical to use tongs, it takes too long.” He goes onīut you are not busy, you have no customers…. Sigh? I just want to get something for dinner, but my visit to the butcher becomes an attempt to have an argument about the use of plastic, not the butcher serving me, but by the owner of the shop, standing in the background. I had to go to this bloke… I forget why… but why am I inflicted with such people… I’ve just noticed I haven’t posted for some weeks, and a bit has happened as well as some unfortunate realisations about the world… Just to tell, one of my butcher mates.
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