Waste & Consumerism
Waste is perhaps, on the surface, one of the easiest problems to picture and understand: images of plastic waste in our water and industrial waste in our skies have become synonymous with communications of environmental degradation. However, whilst these striking visuals may capture our attention, convince us to recycle, or even encourage us to collect the litter we see, our waste problem currently runs far deeper.
Solving the plastic pollution crisis requires a fundamental change in thinking about the production of plastic in the first place: where it comes from, and why it is being produced in such monumental volume.
The story of plastics is the story of how Big Oil got into everything.
Solving the plastic pollution crisis requires a fundamental change in thinking about the production of plastic in the first place: where it comes from, and why it is being produced in such monumental volume.
The story of plastics is the story of how Big Oil got into everything.
“It is quite frequently that we come across articles and papers that declare the Asia Pacific region as the biggest contributor to ocean plastic. Labelling these countries as polluters is both facetious and inaccurate.”
Satyarupa Shekhar, Asia Pacific Coordinator for #BreakFreeFromPlastic, is shifting the narrative of the plastic waste crisis in the Asia Pacific Region…
The idea of net zero at its core is about balance: a net zero world in theory is a world we’d want to live in. But reducing emissions is also a matter of climate justice.
Can goals of Net Zero by 2050 help us address the need to confront our growth-based economy? Or is this just another form of greenwashing?
