Opinion

Marvellous plastic: Why demonise a great invention which has benefited us so much?

Steve Evans
Updated July 3 2019 - 4:16pm, first published 4:05pm
Plastic is one of the great inventions that has made our lives easier and safer. Picture: Bloomberg
Plastic is one of the great inventions that has made our lives easier and safer. Picture: Bloomberg

It is the beginning of Plastic Free July. No doubt, all well meaning citizens, keen to be "part of the solution" as the promo material puts it, are not buying plastic bottles of water. They are looking askance at anyone who even dreams of a plastic straw. They will be buying veggies without plastic wrapping at the supermarket and carrying them home in a nice re-usable hessian bag.

Steve Evans

Steve Evans

Reporter

Steve Evans is a reporter on The Canberra Times. He's been a BBC correspondent in New York, London, Berlin and Seoul and the sole reporter/photographer/paper deliverer on The Glen Innes Examiner in country New South Wales. "All the jobs have been fascinating - and so it continues."

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