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Can all the plastics be replaced? I am thinking about plastic syringes and the plastic collars each needle goes into, to hold the syringe. I can remember at the start of my nursing career drawing a drug up and using a glass syringe to admin meds to a patient, circa 1973. The syringes were not thrown away, they were sterilised, repacked and the packaging was colour coded with an expiry date, to be reused. In those days the issue was not about plastic. The issues would have been around wages, going into the EU, social and economic. We were not environmentally aware in those days. How times have changed. Last edited by Gate Keeper; 18th June 2019 at 15:02.. |
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Reintroducing glass milk bottles will be disastrous over here. Plastic petrol bombs here did not have the same effects during riots. This is a bit tongue in cheek, however, I once read a newspaper article regarding this, and the reduction of issues from molotov cocktails. I have actually noticed it personally, from where a disturbance would've been, there was an obvious absence of broken glass, that would have been present before.
Cardboard cartons is the answer here. (Iknow they have a limited amount of plastic, but they're still recyclable to a certain level) Sent from my SM-A600FN using Tapatalk
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Plastic cartons are undoubtedly very cheap compared to cardboard. Having worked in food packaging for 40 years retailers are still very reluctant to give up the plastic even though where I work we can make fully waterproof and grease resistant cartons of cardboard only - no plastic at all in them. BUT they cost more...
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Probably correct in that comment. Also I think the retailers are very reluctant to do something like that on their own through fear that the competition will not follow suit and leave them exposed. Maybe the basic reality is that we can't eliminate plastics or recycle them on the cheap and that is a cost that maybe we all need to share at some point.
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I guess it needs lots of us to buy those goods, the established players will see the shift. The government has a part to play as well. |
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My point tho, is would we simply be swapping one issue for another? If we use paper or cardboard- would obtaining the wood pulp have a knock on effect? Would the new paper mills be environmentally friendly? Because the old ones certainly were not. |
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