Tagged “waste”

how the Tylenol poisoning guy created more packaging waste than has ever been mitigated by consumer recycling efforts

Much of this seemed less serious than the wild food waste stats, but these are very concerning:

Every year in Australia approximately 130,000 tonnes of plastic leaks into the marine environment.
Our use of plastic is increasing and across the world will double by 2040.
By 2050, it is estimated that plastic in the oceans will outweigh fish.

If food waste was a country it would be the third largest emitter of greenhouse gases.

Economic cost of it seems comparatively low on an international scale (still billions), but emissions and water cost is pure waste.

On mining and building

Still don't love the obsession with "tearing down the economic system that rejects it". Funny that something talking about maintenance doesn't think that existing systems could be improved..