WSJ: Misconceptions Cause the Single-Use Plastic Panic

The article goes on to blame the plastics pollution crisis on “mismanaged waste” and single-use plastic bags being placed in recycling bins rather than the trash.

SEATTLE (Waste 360): More than 100 countries now restrict single-use plastic bags, and in the U.S., hundreds of municipalities and eight states—California, Connecticut, Delaware, Hawaii, Maine, New York, Oregon and Vermont—have outlawed or restricted single-use plastic bags.

But, according to an op-ed in The Wall Street Journal, popular misconceptions have sustained the plastic panic. The commentary notes that environmentalists frequently claim that 80 percent of plastic in the oceans comes from land-based sources, but a team of scientists from four continents reported in 2018 that more than half the plastic in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch came from fishing boats—mostly discarded nets and other gear.

The article goes on to blame the plastics pollution crisis on “mismanaged waste” and single-use plastic bags being placed in recycling bins rather than the trash.

Courtesy: www.waste360.com

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