Toxicity of Plastics and Bioplastics

In our journey to Zero Waste, we learned a few things along the way. One of which is that plastics are toxic and dangerous and that we’ve polluted our world so much that they are everywhere on this planet: plastics are in air, water, soil, our food, and in our bodies. And the vast majority of so-called compostables and biodegradables (i.e. bioplastics) are equally toxic as conventional plastics. We learned both plastics and bioplastics should never belong to any compost piles. Let’s see, let’s give up one hundred steps for an argument’s sake and say those bioplastics were non-toxic and plastic-free – even then, we can’t evade the fact that those single-use disposables are still major distractions from the real solutions that we should strive for – i.e. the banning of single-use and the massive build-out of reuse and refill infrastructures.

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