By Street Insider News

In the 1960s we embraced plastic, and it became the amazing material that has revolutionized so many aspects of our lives. From its simple origins (replacing elephant’s tusks and tortoise’s shell to make combs) to medical wonders, plastic has become essential and incredibly valuable as a material with traits that so many of our products need. Somewhere in the past 50 years however, while rapidly consuming plastic and enjoying its benefits, we learned to equate plastic’s low dollar cost with dispensability. This low cost for many products, has turned out to be a high cost for the environment and the communities that these products and packaging serve. Creating a perfect world of circulating resources is an enormous challenge, but the benefits of being able to succeed with resource recovery and reuse are both exciting and imperative if our global community is to function with an improving quality of life.

By EIN Presswire

ABC Radio with Wendy Harmer and Jeff Angel on the upcoming Plasticity Sydney event on October 31st, as part of the Beyond Plastic Pollution conference. We hope you can be part of the discussion. www.plasticityforum.com

By Plasticity Sydney

ABC Radio with Wendy Harmer and Jeff Angel on the upcoming Plasticity Sydney event on October 31st, as part of the Beyond Plastic Pollution conference. We hope you can be part of the discussion. www.plasticityforum.com

By Adriane Rysz

The second-annual KIN HONG Seafood Festival aims to build public knowledge of sustainable seafood, why we should care about what we are eating, and where it comes from. Meaning “healthy” in Cantonese, KIN HONG is funded by ADM Cap…