Upstairs at Caroline
Follow That Plastic!
RECEIVED Mon., Feb. 24, 2020
Dear Editor,
Thank you for the thoughtful and thorough cover story [“A Banana Peel, a Diaper, and a Plastic Bag Walk Into Austin’s Composting Program,” Feb. 21] last week about how to compost properly using Austin’s green garbage bins. It is inspiring to see how waste is reused to create jobs and food.
Now, please continue the story about the end life of our plastic waste.
I have stopped recycling plastics since I read the “Public Notice: Total Garbage” story by Nick Barbaro in your July 12, 2019, issue. I have not been able to learn the whole story from the city’s Resource Recovery department about where our recycled plastics go. I fear they are shipped to China and then dumped into the sea to enlarge the plastic garbage gyre.
I fear that well-meaning plastic recyclers are contributing unwittingly to more pollution.
Please follow the plastic story, from fracked gas to the belly of a whale.
Now if only H-E-B would honor the plastic bag ban in all of their Texas stores, like they continue to do in Austin.
Thank you for the thoughtful and thorough cover story [“A Banana Peel, a Diaper, and a Plastic Bag Walk Into Austin’s Composting Program,” Feb. 21] last week about how to compost properly using Austin’s green garbage bins. It is inspiring to see how waste is reused to create jobs and food.
Now, please continue the story about the end life of our plastic waste.
I have stopped recycling plastics since I read the “Public Notice: Total Garbage” story by Nick Barbaro in your July 12, 2019, issue. I have not been able to learn the whole story from the city’s Resource Recovery department about where our recycled plastics go. I fear they are shipped to China and then dumped into the sea to enlarge the plastic garbage gyre.
I fear that well-meaning plastic recyclers are contributing unwittingly to more pollution.
Please follow the plastic story, from fracked gas to the belly of a whale.
Now if only H-E-B would honor the plastic bag ban in all of their Texas stores, like they continue to do in Austin.
Thank you!
Jenny Clark
Jenny Clark