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Paul Wermer, CC BY-NC-SA 4.0It sort of bewilders me that companies are releasing products based on these materials without having asked and answered basic questions - certainly issues identified with conventional plastics offered at least a partial roadmap of specific things to consider (nano/microparticle, environmental fate in various environments, impact of metabolites, behavior in digestive systems, etc.) And I see too many products preying on consumers, capitalizing on confusion of "biodegradable" vs "compostable" - in fact, I fear many making the consumer products from these materials don't fully understand the issues.<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/may/13/starch-based-bioplastic-petroleum-plastic-study?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/may/13/starch-based-bioplastic-petroleum-plastic-study?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other</a><a href="https://sfba.social/tags/plasticpollution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#plasticpollution</a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/MisleadingClaims" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#MisleadingClaims</a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/RegulatoryFailure" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#RegulatoryFailure</a> - All courtesy of the lobbyists paid by <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/BigPlastic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#BigPlastic</a> - which includes consumer products companies like Pepsi and Coke and Nestle and Danone and all those other companies helping you ingest plastics.

Glyn Moody<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Microplastics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Microplastics</a> hinder plant photosynthesis, study finds, threatening millions with starvation - <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/mar/10/microplastics-hinder-plant-photosynthesis-study-finds-threatening-millions-with-starvation" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/mar/10/microplastics-hinder-plant-photosynthesis-study-finds-threatening-millions-with-starvation</a> "Researchers say problem could increase number of people at risk of starvation by 400m in next two decades" another reason to tackle <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/BigPlastic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#BigPlastic</a>

Paul Wermer, CC BY-NC-SA 4.0So why does <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/BigPlastic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#BigPlastic</a> expect people to <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/recycle" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#recycle</a> plastic? There is no cost to just discarding <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/SingleUsePlastic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#SingleUsePlastic</a>, and there is a cost in time and effort of the consumer to get the plastic to a recycling center; there is a cost to sort waste to extract plastic from a waste stream to recycle it; there is a still intractable cost problem of clean plastic for recycling.So maybe the first step is to reward consumers for returning single use plastics for recycling. Of course, how does one generate that reward? And how large does it have to be, and how easy does it have to be to claim it? And what is the impact on low income households? And how is that system designed and implemented?Big Plastic is profitable BECAUSE they have a one way process - make, sell, and forget. No responsibility after the sale for the end of life impacts.<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/nov/20/five-firms-in-plastic-pollution-alliance-made-1000-times-more-waste-than-they-saved-analysis-shows?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/nov/20/five-firms-in-plastic-pollution-alliance-made-1000-times-more-waste-than-they-saved-analysis-shows?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other</a><a href="https://sfba.social/tags/PlasticPollution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#PlasticPollution</a> is a problem because <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/IndustryDeception" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#IndustryDeception</a> is so common

JEmphaticallyAlberta’s Environment Minister, Rebecca Schulz was in Ontario this past week and announced she would be handing out free…get ready…plastic bags. Is this a stunt she learned as a former senior communications officer at SaskEnergy?Speaking of going down the tubes, with things heating up in Alberta this summer, the threat to the water supply in the southern half of the province is coming into clearer focus.<a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/bigplastic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#bigplastic</a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/bigstraws" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#bigstraws</a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/climatechange" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#climatechange</a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/climatecrisis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#climatecrisis</a> <a href="https://jodymacpherson.substack.com/p/a-boiling-point-green-hushing-big" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://jodymacpherson.substack.com/p/a-boiling-point-green-hushing-big</a>

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