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What is the basis for the opposition to plastics? Give 5 examples. [For
instance, the floating islands of plastics in the oceans and what 4ocean is doing
about it
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What is being done to reduce plastics? What is the economics of recycling?
What was the role of Greenpeace?
3] What are “mixed” plastics? What is done with it? What was the effect of the
use of sorting machines?
3] So why is the plastic industry expanding? Why is there an increasing use of
plastics? What was the role of advertising?
4] What is the evolution of the use of plastics? What does consumerism,
environmentalism, litter, solid waste have to do with the history of plastics? What
is the role of China? What’s happening in Indonesia?
5] What happened in the 1970s to change the attitude about using plastics?
What does the recycling symbol mean and what is the reality of its use? Does
recycling work?
6] So what are we supposed/going to do to solve the environmental impact of
plastics if recycling is not the only or best approach?
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