{"id":758,"date":"2014-10-28T07:16:53","date_gmt":"2014-10-28T11:16:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=758"},"modified":"2014-10-28T07:16:53","modified_gmt":"2014-10-28T11:16:53","slug":"the-plastic-society-moving-towards-plastic-independence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=758","title":{"rendered":"The Plastic Society &#8211; Moving Towards Plastic Independence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/permaculturenews.org\/2014\/10\/28\/plastic-society-moving-towards-plastic-independence\/\">The Plastic Society &#8211; Moving Towards Plastic Independence<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;\">We all know about society\u2019s over-consumption of plastic. We\u2019ve heard again and again that it takes up to a millennia for plastics to bio-degrade (1), and consumers worldwide are using approximately 500 billion single-use plastic bags per year (2). And the issue of micro-plastic in our oceans in the past few years have gained awareness via social media. With all this data perpetually smothering our faces on a regular basis, it really begs the question why aren\u2019t governments providing effective immediate solutions on a macro-scale to combat society\u2019s rampant plastic consumption? If plastics are so costly in terms of energy consumption and environmental impact, then action has to be undertaken promptly, and in this article are practical solutions as to how you can build and begin successful projects.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0px 0px 10px 0px;\">Sure, we have recycling plants, wonderful appropriate technology like\u00a0<a style=\"color: #0088cc; text-decoration: none;\" href=\"http:\/\/ubuntublox.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Ubuntu Blox<\/a>, that re-uses plastics to create useable bricks for house construction, Upcycling, bio-plastics and the like \u2014 truly, these are all practical and amazing ideas and technologies, but they have minimal impact on, when looking at the broader scale, the impact of plastic consumption on our planet and measures aren\u2019t being implemented fast enough on a broad scale.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0px 0px 10px 0px;\">Social paradigms are certainly the major issue. Plastics are convenient, cheap and durable \u2013 so much so that they have become deeply engrained in the psyche of the consumer. The solution for shifting the paradigm and reducing consumption is twofold: local councils and governments need to introduce incentive schemes to entice consumers to reduce their personal consumption; and, education programs need to be expanded and improved upon.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0px 0px 10px 0px;\">&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Plastic Society &#8211; Moving Towards Plastic Independence. We all know about society\u2019s over-consumption of plastic. We\u2019ve heard again and again that it takes up to a millennia for plastics to bio-degrade (1), and consumers worldwide are using approximately 500 billion single-use plastic bags per year (2). And the issue of micro-plastic in our oceans [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[161,271,630,671,830],"class_list":["post-758","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","tag-consumerism","tag-environment-2","tag-plastic","tag-recycling","tag-upcycling"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/758","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=758"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/758\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}