Stop using plastics 3 to 7

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It's time we stopped packaging things in materials that can't actually be recycled.

Plastics going straight to landfill as China waste ban bites — RNZ
“WasteMINZ chief executive Paul Evans said while plastic in grades 1 and 2 could be recycled in New Zealand, grades 3 to 7 were much harder to deal with.
“Manufacturers have continued to pump those out over the years, despite the fact that there aren't viable or economic markets available for those, and this has really been exacerbated by the moves in China.”
Which means we have stop manufacturers using these plastics.
“The associate environment Minister Eugenie Sage said it was likely more New Zealand recyclers would be refusing some waste types. She said increasing the costs for dumping waste at landfills could be one way of tackling the problem.”
Disagree with the Minister here. Charging for dumping at the end of the consumer process is daft. Stop making the stuff in the first place.

What we need is some leadership at a government level. Like the idea of ban smoking long-term, we should have a long-term goal of eliminating plastics that can't be re-used or recycled, with a signal from the Government that these plastics should be avoided by manufacturers.

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