Comments by "Sophia Nílsson" (@sophroniel) on "Cosmetics Packaging Is A Recycling Disaster. Can Turning It Into Furniture Help? | World Wide Waste" video.

  1. The idea is great! The part where most things fall down (like concrete, one of the most potent contributors to greenhouse gasses!) is that they are made in a way that should be permanent (think roads, infrastructure, internal chattels, objects etc in buildings like libraries, schools, hospitals, govt buildings) with materials that do not last as long as they should (or maybe used to in the past, because they began to more and more use materials that were cheaper). The idea with reusing plastics in this way is great because yes, whilst it may theoretically create more microplastics etc in the long term, in the present and for the life of the product—which will hopefully be longer than if other, more perishable materials had been used—it will act as carbon sinks do, because the plastic that would otherwise be essentially loosed to the environment will be captured and put to use in a longterm way. If you can capture as much waste products like used plastic and put it in long term items/functions as is possible, hopefully we buy our planet enough time to better regenerate everything and we can only hope that, within any time we bought, we can figure out a better way of dealing with such plastics in the long term, more than we can currently do now anyway. Great stuff!
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