• iii
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    I have seen endless reports like this from every news source, labs, you name it.

    I’ve seen the same. We share this observation.

    plastics have to be banned. Period.

    Let’s phone the principal’s office and get plastics banned.

    • lychee🍒@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      Plastics aren’t just shopping bags. Plastics are used in clothing, machinery, solid state electronics, literally everywhere. You can’t just ban a material that’s been essential to the world economy for the past century, you have to replace it with something

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      California finally did it for plastic bags other states have done it as well. Nationwide plastic bags and single use bottles need to be banned.

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        Yeah fine by me. We’ve had that for a decade now where I live.

        Has had no measureable impact on ocean plastics.