The solution to the plastic waste crisis? It isn’t recycling | John Vidal

The Lego Disney Frozen II Arendelle Castle Village features a princess, animals, birds and mini dolls. It is made of 521 separate bits of plastic, it was one of the bestselling Christmas toys, and fans of the movie on which it is based will surely spend several hours of magical, creative play with it.

I get the point of the article, but why bring Lego into it as the focus? Including the statement that 'toy makers don’t have to make poor quality goods'. Lego makes lovely high quality toys which last for ages and can be reused in ways that many others can't.

The responsibility to stop using plastics wherever possible- should lie with the manufactures/producers...not with consumers at the bottom of the trail. Take supermarket shopping bags for example. Why can't they supply only strong paper bags and stop selling plastic altogether?

Reduce, reuse, recycle. In that order. For non-recyclable plastics, better they're incinerated for electricity production than sent to landfill (so perhaps we should add 'roast', as a 4th R?)

We simply have to consume less of everything.

In one of the supermarkets near me, the *organic* fruits and veg are on styrofoam and wrapped in plastic! The 'non-organic' fruits are piled up without plastic wrappers. It's absurd. And this is in a state that's supposed to be banning single use plastic.

A new report by the Green Alliance, which was paid for by some of Britain’s largest plastic recyclers? Why would anyone take one bit of notice of that report? It’s paying for a result you want.

I am fully on board with the fundamental point of the article but using Lego, one of the few examples of plastic that can actually be used over decades with minimum care needed, is a bit odd imo.......

Great article. I think we should ban the word 'disposable' because there is no such thing. We take from the ground and return it as toxic.

No, it is putting the sauces. milk, etc. BACK in glass bottles

Great article!! And spot on!!

Consumer recycling is the least beneficial intervention in environmental degradation. I hate stories that shift the responsibilities of this pollution onto consumers when there’s clear evidence the manufacturers of these goods are responsible. Trickledown responsibility.

Not using plastic at all is the way. Lego is not where people need to focus as surely no-one throws that away? Walk thru a s/market & see how much is wrapped in plastic. We are surrounded by it. Must be 1 Arundell castles worth of plastic from every family weekly shop.

If it is ideal then it is still a repetition and if it is a new one thus it is a benign repeating of tradition. the question is whether it is really inventively.

Stop buying crap

Probably don’t make the stuff!!

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