Save Our Only Ocean, page-484

@Sweeetsound - I have a container in my storage area which holds a packet of 30-drinking straws which I bought 10 years ago for a party at my place. I never used them. I do not drink Coca Cola, think it is a vile drink, with the exception of the odd rum & coke, maybe half a dozen over a lifetime.
Even though I rarely paint my nails, because I like to keep them short, II bought some nail polish yesterday and marvelled at and cursed the packaging it came in. Needed a pair of scissors to open it, half made from see-through plastic, the back from card board, but, of course, the top had a neat loop in the plastic so it could be hung on a display stand at Coles - there it was hanging, along with multitudes of similar cosmetics items packaged similarly.

Tooth paste tubes are another thing - too many different components to make it hard for disassembling for shredding, melting, or whatever it is that happens to the discarded tube - similar with the various facial cremes - I bought a very expensive one at a beauty 'clinic' once, which even had a metal mechanism inside a hard plastic 'bottle' which acted as a 'pump' to get the creme out - made in South Africa btw. - told staff that I was disgusted with this item - should have written to the company.

My big beef re plastics, everything we now buy in supermarkets is packaged for the convenience of storing and handling, hanging, stacking etc. the goods BEFORE purchase. So: not for the convenience of the shopper, but for the various handlers the items pass through before getting to the end consumer.
This needs to stop, but it will mean a revolution in how we purchase, decide what our real needs are, too.
I buy my vegetables, fruit now loose, whenever possible - get the little vine tomatoes 'on the vine' in the cardboard box (light plastic on top), which I can burn etc.
I wash a stack of handkerchiefs along with my weekly wash, which I purchased cheaply from Good Sammy's rather than use paper hankies, still keep one box on top of the fridge, though.
Until we all, collectively, decide 'no more waste' - this problem is not going to go away.
However, good people are working on it:
For example one American called Paul Stamets!! who is into mushrooms, big time, both eating and scientifically - a former woodsman, not a scientist!!

I love mushrooms, have had grandma who knew all about them, picked them, dried them, etc. -
So: a few years ago I got interested in Paul Stamets - it's well worth reading one of his books - or better still, there is a series on him on Netflix called 'Fantastic Fungi'
and make sure you see the episode where he had his 'aha' moment high on psychedelic mushrooms, climbing into a tree and a thunderstorm came in and he vowed if he survived the storm he would stop stammering - and it worked!!!

btw. the hat he wears is made from 'mushroom leather' made in Rumania (cost about $300) - I am totally in love with this man -
alas it is unrequited !?!?! Love to eat mushies, though! As good as meat IMO.

https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-d&q=Netflix+Paul+Stamets#fpstate=ive&vld=cid:44f2ecef,vid:bxABOiay6oA,st:0

https://livingstations.wdka.nl/paul-stamets-6-ways-mushrooms-can-save-the-world/


Don't be sad - we - humanity - have always gotten into strife and always gotten out of it, too. X
Tau