The novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) is all-subsuming. The pandemic makes it difficult to think or act on all the issues that made up our world yesterday and will stay in our world of tomorrow.
One such issue is plastic — the most ubiquitous substance that takes up so much of our lives and fills up our land and oceans, polluting it and adding to our health-stress. The current health emergency has normalised the use of plastic as more and more of it gets used as protection against the virus.
This plastic protection gear — from the gloves, to the masks to the body suits — so critical in this ‘war’ against COVID-19, will also contribute to the mountains of trash in our cities – if it is not incinerated in properly controlled and managed medical waste disposal facilities.
The politics of plastic is in the rather benign word ‘recycling’. Global industry has successfully argued that we can continue to use this highly durable substance because once we throw it, it will be recycled. Never mind that nobody knows what this means...
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