
Single-use Plastic Alternatives Distract from Real Solutions
Instead of placing our hopes in recycling and the use of degradable plastics, we should seek to avoid, reduce at source and reuse. Our excessive use of plastic, coupled with heavy reliance on single-use plastics, is the crux of the problem. We must ditch our addiction to single-use plastics, slash plastic production at source and develop genuine plastic-free and harmless alternatives.