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Originally Posted by Gerard C

They only do what they are paid for! Prepare yourself to hear that the disposable masks are bad for the whales, pandas and koalas now!

In the UK some of the media outlets have been campaigning against "plastic" quite strongly. (For some it seems to be a case of whether the owners's wife adopts a particularly "green" stance for some reason.)

Now one of them has been running a campaign to collect money from its presumably less than bright readers to be spent, they tell us, on personal protection wear for health and care workers. (Nothing to do with boosting their own feel good and do good reputation at all - oh no.)

This has had the effect of using a lot of newsprint. Does no one think of the CO2 footprint and the loss of biomass?

Yesterday (iirc) there was a multiple page spread spouting about how they had extracted £7 million or some such number from their "readers" and spent it on getting a UK manufacturer to make a whole load of top quality PPE gowns.

All from beads of plastic used to make the material from which the (likely disposable only) protection layers are created.

I'm not sure whether the irony escaped them or whether there is feral group of journalists and editors in the ranks of the employees taking an opportunity to identify some of the benefits of "plastics" and the debenefits of trying to eliminate them totally and quickly.

If plastics are forced into oblivion there are many aspect of vehicles - electric or otherwise - that will somehow need to be rethought and perhaps return to the eras of all metal construction; which could be quite an expensive outcome with high associated energy consumption.