Van Jones: The Economic Injustice of Plastic

[marmar]

from YES! Magazine:




Van Jones: The Economic Injustice of Plastic
How plastic unfairly harms the poor—and what the rest of us can do about it.

by Van Jones
posted Jan 27, 2011


Watch: http://www.yesmagazine.org/peace-justice/the-economic-injustice-of-plastic


Recycling that plastic water bottle isn't as guilt-free as some of us may think. Van Jones explains how plastic is an economic injustice that harms the poor at the points of production, use, and disposal. Pointing out that those of us who aren't poverty-stricken have economic choices, Van urges us to move away from our society's addiction to disposability and reclaim what has largely become a throw-away planet.

http://www.yesmagazine.org/peace-justice/the-economic-injustice-of-plastic

[derby378]

1. I have two SIGG bottles and prefer to use them for water

I used to use them a lot more than I have recently, though. It's a small step towards recommitting myself to fighting the waste.