Tuesday, July 28, 2020

How to Give up Plastic - Will McCallum - Part 4 of 4

2020 Reading Challenge - Day 208
July 28, 2020

Book 57 - How to Give Up Plastic
Will McCallum
 Part 4 - pages 160-206
Reading Time - 60 minutes

This last section covers different ideas for giving up plastic in your community and is mostly focused on activism. McCallum offers tips on how to start local groups, campaign for a reduction in plastic production and, as a second-choice, arrange things like beach clean-ups. As we've learned from this book, recycling and clean-ups don't really address the problem which is indiscriminate production with no end-point in view.

McCallum says that when we are united, we can really make a difference. He suggest that instead of Reduce, Reuse, Recycle, we should aim for Refuse, Reduce, Reuse, Recycle. It's always good to remember that "Recycle" is at the tail end of the long chain of plastic...

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