To many, the idea of a post-plastic world seems unattainable as well as undesirable. Why would we want to give up a material that adds such convenience to our everyday lives? Packaging is at the forefront of our daily plastic deluge, and as the poster child for single-use, it wraps almost everything we buy, from individual oranges to fast fashion dropped through the letterbox.
31% of the plastic made today is used as packaging, equating to 141 million tonnes of plastic every year. We’re at a point where we use an estimated five trillion plastic bags annually, when there are only eight billion people on the planet.
