{"id":35,"date":"2019-06-15T14:27:20","date_gmt":"2019-06-15T14:27:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blablamaterio.com\/?p=35"},"modified":"2019-11-06T14:58:18","modified_gmt":"2019-11-06T14:58:18","slug":"112-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blablamaterio.com\/en_gb\/112-2","title":{"rendered":"O! newsletter #112"},"content":{"rendered":"

No doubt, we're gonna eat it!<\/strong>
5 grams of plastic\u2026 it is the amount each human currently ingests per week. It basically corresponds to a credit card. Micro-particles of plastic can be found in the fish we consume, in processed food, in the water we drink, in the air we breathe. You may have noticed how the media have been seasoning the word \u2018plastic\u2019 with every sauce they could these past weeks? Long litany of the various disorders created by a massive production of polymers, from the vortex in open sea generated by a soup of plastic waste, to the so-called biodegradable plastic bags still dandy after 3 years in nature, to plastic residues found at the top of the Everest or in the Greenland ice field, 40 kilos of plastic in the stomach of a beached whale\u2026 In the end, our 5 grams are nothing! But stop it, it is alarming and we are saturating. mat\u00e9riO would like to remind few essential truths:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2022 Plastic is fantastic!<\/strong> Poly-ethylene, Poly-styrene, Poly-urethane, Poly-stuff\u2026 This type of material with Greek shepherd\u2019s names is indeed fantastic. A matter that is ready to adopt any shape, any use, any constraint, and offers resistance, lightness, strength, low production prices\u2026 it is poly-extraordinary!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2022 Plastic is catastrophic!<\/strong> Or rather, what humans are doing with plastic is catastrophic and mortiferous, as polymers, even if having all the qualities we previously discussed, can now be found everywhere. We are producing 10 tons of plastic per second, for judicious and relevant uses as well as the most trivial and fleeting uses, without caring about what they will become\u2026 So easy, so cheap\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2022 Bio-sourced, false good idea!<\/strong> It is not because a polymer is produced using corn, green algae or even orange peels that it will ultimately go back to nature that easily. Bio-sourced does not mean biodegradable. It only means that the necessary carbon-based molecules have been found elsewhere. Bio-sourced is in the end the promise of keeping on polluting the planet once fossil-based resources will be depleted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2022 Biodegradable, it is debatable!<\/strong> First, is it clever and responsible to consider that we can now throw away stuff without caring about what our waste will become as they would magically disappear? Second, will waste really disappear? Biodegradability is a \u2019trash\u2019 notion, within which we throw polymers that will actually rapidly \u2018disappear\u2019 to become non visible - however toxic and long-lasting - micro-particles as well as polymers that require very specific conditions to degrade themselves\u2026 conditions difficult to gather in real life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2022 Recycled, problem postponed!<\/strong> An idea that seems smart, RE-cycling, RE-using, RE-duce waste, preserve RE-ssources. Energy and matter have been invested to produce, let\u2019s maximize this initial investment\u2026 but the loop is today not infinite nor trivial and we still have to imagine the happy end.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So\u2026 it is urgent to stop deluding ourselves. Let\u2019s exercise our critical mind to use with parsimony, frugality and intelligence the materials and energy we have at our disposal, and let\u2019s get out of the \u2019make-use-waste\u2019 trilogy. The only real \u2018eco-plastic\u2019 is the one we do not use, the best waste the one we do not produce.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

mat\u00e9riO\u2019<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ah \u00e7a, on va en bouffer!5 grammes de plastique\u2026 c\u2019est la quantit\u00e9 qu\u2019actuellement chaque \u00eatre humain ing\u00e8re par semaine. Soit l\u2019\u00e9quivalent d\u2019une carte de cr\u00e9dit. Des micro-particules de plastique sont pr\u00e9sentes dans le poisson que nous consommons, dans nos plats pr\u00e9par\u00e9s, dans l\u2019eau que nous buvons, dans l\u2019air que nous respirons. D\u2019ailleurs, vous avez not\u00e9 […]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":694,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[32,31,15,16,14,13],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blablamaterio.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blablamaterio.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blablamaterio.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blablamaterio.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blablamaterio.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blablamaterio.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":411,"href":"https:\/\/blablamaterio.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35\/revisions\/411"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blablamaterio.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/694"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blablamaterio.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blablamaterio.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blablamaterio.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}