Plastics should not end up as trash in the environment

Plastics are a major component of the present day "use once and throw away" culture. Plastic thrash ends up in the wayside and oceans. However, plastics should not end up in the environment.

Plastics are made of oil. Currently, most plastics do not have the acutely toxic oil components. Thus, they could be used in energy production instead of oil itself. It is an immense waste to use oil to make plastics which are then thrown away instead of even been used for producing energy.

However, a better solution would be to recycle plastics. Since a lot of work has gone to produce the material, it is an immense waste that it is thrown way and not reused. The biggest problem for recycling is the small number of collection places. They should be as common as paper recycling boxes. This is something that could easily be done, and in the name of savings, which is presently a catch word. As an analogy to paper - since having paper recycling units in Finland is very common, hardly any paper ends up in the environment.

So let's demand that we increase get the possibility to recycle plastics to help the environment.