half of the world\u2019s plastic pollution<\/a>. What are some of the big changes that could reduce plastic pollution and exposure?<\/p>\n
Baechler:
The best science points to a need for three big system-level changes, the first being sharp decreases in production of plastics\u2013\u2013particularly single-use plastics. The Ocean Conservancy every year leads the international coastal clean-up\u2026 and far and away, the items we see most frequently on coasts and beaches around the world every year are single-use plastics, things like food ware, plastic bags, and cutlery.<\/p>\n
The second is that we need to manage the plastics we do produce and have in circulation much better. A lot of infrastructure to recycle plastics is out of date, it\u2019s overburdened, and so it cannot be extremely effective.<\/p>\n
Also, you can use your voice to let decisionmakers know how you feel about plastics! Let brands know, if you\u2019re shopping at the grocery store and you notice, \u2018wow, this carrot is triple packaged in plastic!\u2019… We\u2019ve seen a lot of success in the plastic space with people advocating for change.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Washing your clothing on a low temperature with mild detergent can help preserve fabrics and lead to fewer…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":153955,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[246,61,60,82],"class_list":["post-153954","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-environment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153954","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=153954"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153954\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/153955"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=153954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=153954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=153954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}