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The Whole World's Gone Bananas

from The Cracks Start Appearing by Active Minds

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We are drowning in a mass of unnecessary plastic packaging. Plastic use is expanding so rapidly that in the last decade we have produced more of it than during the whole of the last century, and 40% of that is just for single use packaging - something designed to be thrown away.
10% of all plastic produced ends up in the sea, according to Greenpeace - that’s about 10 million tonnes a year. There it creates a hazard for wildlife, who swallow small pieces of it. It’s been estimated that it would take at least 450 years for a plastic bottle to completely biodegrade. With this rate of increased use, we will soon face a future in which large areas of the ocean and our shorelines are swamped with plastic debris.
And so much of this is so pointless. Plastic became popular because of its indestructible nature - the fact that it won’t rot away. That makes people feel that their food will be kept fresher. But it’s that same indestructible nature that creates its environmental problems. When we packing single bananas in their own specifically designed plastic packaging, surely we’ve lost the plot.

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I’ve just seen a banana on sale in a shop - wrapped in plastic, with a little hook for hanging up to make a display attractive enough to entice you to look. There was a label there to inform that “banana” was the name of the product in question - part of a range that they called “fresh fruit”. Just peel and eat it was the serving suggestion. All of this packaging for a single banana - something which is already perfectly packed by nature in its own biodegradable wrapper. It made me wonder if I’d finally cracked. What next? Why not wrap the whole world up in plastic to sterilise it, and keep us safe from germs? But we cannot cheat natural decay forever - there will come a day when we’re all food for worms. The whole world’s gone bananas.

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from The Cracks Start Appearing, released December 19, 2014

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