How about you just make permanent, durable stuff outta plastic and not just for instant-trash, convenience-based throw-aways, huh? I mean, work with us here, eh? Instead, they want to dump the responsibility back to us through “increased rates of recovery and recycling of plastics”. On the fleeting bright side of this problem of plastic pollution, DOW suggests that, “the industrial sector has been guilty of “insufficient participation” in finding a solution”. Duh, dooood…(snore, snore…)

This is all in reaction to Mexico’s plastic bag ban, which the plastics industry claims is being poorly managed. Hey, bienvenidos a Mexico, Jorge – maybe planning to avoid the pollution situation that you’ve caused for an entire country should have been thought out before this breaking point, instead of after this “populist measure”, ya think? Get used to “populist measures”, we have them planned all over the globe.

Mexico is feeling the brunt of plastics pollution, and is responding with legislation – perhaps a last resort. But when dealing with an unneighborly adversary like the plastics people, ya gotta do whatcha gotta do…unfortunately, Mexico does not have the infrastructure to recycle (whilst whistling a happy tune, as the plastics industry thinks it happens) the volumes of plastic throw-aways that are foisted upon them by manufacturers, so are attempting to legislate the problem down to controllable levels. Buenas Suerte!