The house was equipped with plastic chairs and plastic floors, the kitchen with precise stacks of plastic plates and plastic cups. Plastic wrapped in plastic: the wasteful reality of America's grocery stores Read moreTomorrow has come, and plastic is everywhere. In the half century since the Monsanto house closed, plastic has conquered the planet: globally, we now consume a million plastic bottles a minute and more than a trillion plastic bags every year. In the kitchens and bathrooms of newly built suburbs, women tossed trash in plastic waste baskets and powdered their noses using plastic compacts. Recent years have brought a tsunami of single-use plastics (straws, plastic bags, takeout containers, plastic water bottles).

Source: The Guardian June 21, 2019 04:52 UTC