Here are some fun facts from Canuckle, the Canadian version of Wordle.
"In the 2020/21 season, there were 2,860 indoor and 5,000 outdoor ice hockey rinks located in Canada according to the International Ice Hockey Federation."
One rink in our neighbourhood used plastic sheeting to hold the water before it froze. Whatever did we do before plastic?
Imagine the tonnes of plastic bags we buried after chowing down the fries.
"Canada has the longest coastline in the world, measuring 243,042 km!"
If we reused all the plastic bags we waste by turning them into yellow crime-scene tape, could we wrap up Canada to identify us as a plastic-free zone after we switch to fries wrapped in newspaper, and would there be a convoy of trucks crossing the line to get fries that are bagged in plastic the way God intended?
"Originally created by the Inuit to keep warm in the Canadian Arctic, the first PARKAS were made from whale, seal or caribou skin and often coated with fish oil for waterproofing."
What? No Gor-Tex?
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Did you know that Waste Reduction Week in Canada is October 17 this year. Mark your calendar and make a plan. Order your whale-skin parka now before all the whales are gone.
According to Environment Canada, we are headed for Zero Plastic Waste by 2030. Eight years to go. How are we doing? At our house, we presently produce about half as much plastic waste as we did five years ago. How are we going to get to zero?
This Just-Have-a-Think video describes research moving us toward a circular plastic economy. Did you know that? News to me. Check out the Plastic Upcycling Revolution.
I actually DID know some of this positive research was being done. (Not sure where I heard of it.) As always the issue is way more complex that we usually think of it. We really cannot "just stop using plastic" so it's good folks way smarter than us are working on it.
ReplyDeleteMeanwhile we really, really have to stop using all this single use stuff that seems to be virtually unavoidable. My plastic waste is also much reduced, but all this packaging is just so frustrating. How to buy fresh produce and virtually everything else from the grocery store is packed in plastic -- bags, bottles, clamshell packs...
Pandemic shopping has been sooooo bad. Will be glad to get back to gardening, marketing with paper or reusable cloth bags. But it's a huge obstacle yet to overcome. Plastic, plastic, plastic! Ugh!