An article came out this week in the Guardian on humanity's addiction to plastic: A million bottles a minute It's gone viral because it's a lays out t he reality of the great danger that plastic pollution poses to the biosphere. The article is landmark. Its the first that I've read that gets to the gist-- that the Industrial Recycling and governments we all trusted, just don't solve plastic. This is why the plastic is pilling up in landfills, rivers, and of course the ocean. You all know this.
What you probably also suspect, is that instead of old, industrial and capitalist "solutions".... we need a people powered, consciousness raising, paradigm shifting Solutions. And it's here. Yeah baby!
I have spent the last four years of my life focusing on plastic pollution and what we call "Ecobricks". Despite the Guardian's bad news... the great news is that with the ecobrick movement we've got a deep solution. I have written a letter to the Guardian today that was just published on their letters page. I post it here on Steemit:
"There's a solution! And you can start immediately. Here in my home in Indonesia, my neighbors and I, clean, save and segregate our plastic then pack it into PET bottles to make a building block called an Ecobrick. I use Ecobricks to make my furniture and for the bedding-benches in my garden. Ecobricks are a super simple way to keep plastic out of the Industrial Recycling system and the biosphere. Whereas in the Industrial recycling system, plastic gets bounced around the globe and only reused a few times, Ecobricks enable indefinite local cycling of plastic. When applied properly, an Ecobricks can be used over and over again in one construction after another. Thank you so much for this great article Guardian. You've confirmed what we suspected every time we walk on the littered beaches here in Indonesia: that government and industry just aren't aren't solving plastic-- we gotta take care of our own plastic ourselves! "
See www.Ecobricks.org for the full low-down on Ecobricks.
Even better, give me a follow-- I am new to Steemit... but I will posting lots on the issue of plastic pollution and... the solutions! I am a regenerative inventor working every day with things like bamboo and bottles to come open with open source innovations.
