Why are we so stupid?
Yesterday I sent a recent Guardian article to my friend David King, on a subject we've often discussed in the past, the problem of proliferation of plastic waste. Hello David, just wondering if you've seen this article recently published in Guardian. I had no idea the situation was as bad as it has been described here: Despite national packaging targets set by governments in 2018 for 70% of plastic packaging to be recycled by 2025, only about 6% of used and discarded soft plastics were being baled, sorted, shredded, washed, melted – or chemically processed – and turned into new products, according to data published in December by Soft Plastics Stewardship Australia. The rest has headed to landfill. What a stupid species we are. pt So the question is "Why are we so stupid?" Going to waste: two years after REDcycle’s collapse, Australia’s soft plastics are hitting the environment hard Almost 95% of Australia’s so...