PATHS Guide to Plastic Packaging
As you may know, we are literally swimming in plastic, at least when we go to the seashore. And now there is growing concern its everywhere, even included in what we drink.
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But one thing we can say with all certainty is don’t buy eggs in plastic or foam cartons. Neither foam or plastic is recyclable in any practical manner.
Its now estimated that only 7% of all plastic waste is recycled. that means that even if you buy eggs in a carton made of recycled plastic, only 7% of those cartons will be recycled.
Plus, plastic and foam egg cartons fall in the single use plastic category. They are used once and then discarded. They are light in weight and often blow off waste trucks and barges where they more than not wind up in the oceans and their tributaries. they never organically decay but rather break down into smaller and smaller pieces of plastic, eventually becoming micro particles ingested by all manner of ocean life some of which we consume.
There’s any number of pulp cartons in which eggs can be packed. While paper packaging has its issues it far exceeds plastic as a being the preferable packaging for eggs.
Plastic Recycling:
https://resource-recycling.com/plastics/2018/08/01/epa-u-s-plastics-recycling-rate-declines/
In Oceans:
http://www.lavallette.org/envbiochart.html
https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5522e85be4b0b65a7c78ac96/t/5acbd346562fa79982b268fc/1523307375028/5Gyres_BANlist2.pdf
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/02/04/a-grand-plan-to-clean-the-great-pacific-garbage-patch
Paper vs Plastic