So Many Things Where "simpler" would be better

The present discussions of too much plastic trash in the oceans too often just moves simply to 'better recycling.'


Already, we have fewer plastic straws and many places to go boxes are made of pressed cardboard instead of Styrofoam.


 But in an NPR story today, one maverick is collecting plastic trash for repurposing that will cost, by his statement, three or four times that of virgin material.


I'm more than ready for RE USE of STANDARD SIZED BOTTLES for so many things:

laundry soap, shampoo, cleaning agents are chemically similar and all those discarded bottles could be rinsed and refilled.  They could be of the SAME SHAPE (rectangular) for transport, packaging and shelving......all potentially in standard point one liters, half a liter, full liter and so on.  Same for water and soda, and beer, for that matter.
A standard color for soaps, absence of color, clear, for drinks, etc.

Note that I've completely cast aside pints, quarts and gallons...….and I'm concentrating on plastic, since that's what's coming up in bird's bellies.  We can work on metals, later.  

These things can be done, and we'd have DRASTIC REDUCTiON in the types of bottles....making all re use far easier than re cycling now......which involves thousands of types of containers

We can do better and we can do so far more easily than our present paths.

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