Now here’s a really dumb question – why do we still use plastic? At what point do we realize we have to stop creating it?  Is it in another 50 years, when we start seeing it float in our favorite rivers/streams or when our landfills overflow? Since I was in grade school, we were told it doesn’t bio-degrade. Why wasn’t this glaring issue of plastic never breaking down ever addressed before it was mass produced.

Well now we have a “plastic” ocean, which we can credit ourselves for creating.  It comprises of cheap and toxic things we love to buy at WalleyWorld – plastic beads, plastic pellets, plastic bags, plastic chairs, plastic utensils, plastic packaging, plastic bottles, plastic toys, plastic surgery.  All needs to go. Well, we’ll just keep one thing, but that’s the only exception:

Besides a red Solo cup, why do we bother creating more and more plastic things? I would think our sophisticated 21st century collective minds could take maybe 10 minutes to think it over and do what’s right, by deciding to stop using any plastic materials that doesn’t easily bio-degrade. It’s that simple.
Let’s start small. Outlaw any traditional plastic items meant for one-time use – e.g. plastic packaging, bottles, utensils, bags, etc.   Instead, let’s decide to use bioplastic or plant-based plastics (hemp anyone?), which will biodegrade/compost quickly.  It’s really that easy.  I’m sure we have the technology. So let’s forego the ancient methods of creating plastic. We’re wiser now and can improve on this old technology.

Or we can figure out a way to collect all the plastic garbage floating in our oceans, transport it, load it onto space shuttles, and dump the trash outside our outermost atmosphere. We have to make sure it’s far away enough that the earth’s gravitational pull doesn’t pull it back into our atmosphere. That would be embarrassing. Out of sight, out of mind.  Now that is a genius and classy decision. We could bring back NASA. I should run for president.