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$180bn investment in plastic factories feeds global packaging binge
Colossal funding in manufacturing plants by fossil fuel companies will increase plastic production by 40%, risking permanent pollution of the earth.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/dec/26/180bn-investment-in-plastic-factories-feeds-global-packaging-binge
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The findings come amid growing concern about the scale of plastics pollution around the world. Earlier this year scientists warned that it risked near permanent contamination of the planet and at a UN environment conference in Kenya this month the scale of plastic in the sea was described as an “ocean armageddon”.
Chris Jordan, the Midway: http://www.chrisjordan.com/gallery/midway/#CF000313%2018x24
Birds dying of malnutrition because they are eating bright colored plastic, thinking it's food.
As a collective, we seem to sink to the lowest common denominator. How do the 65% overcome the destructive force of the 35%?
