
Dr. MAX LIBOIRON on Reorienting Within a World of Plastic [ENCORE] /294
For The Wild
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The Future of Plastics Is in the Trash Can
Plastics weren't really mass produced until the second world war. The problem with plastics, because they're durable objects, is that you just need to buy one of them and then it will last forever. There was also problems with a lot of these disposales wht were sold to housewives toyou know, make work more efficient. And as part of that packaging was like disposable hygiene for women's menstrual cycles. So am dispose a billy. Theyre one of the truisms around plastics and wastes that is very well developed at this point, but is absolutely not true,. Is that humans are inherently wasteful, or we are just like a trashy species that trashes things? Besides
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