First plastic free aisles, then plastic free isles, finally plastic free Earth!
Dear Fellow Earthlings,
As I write this blog I am filled with happiness because I have just learned that today an organic products chain called Ekoplaza has launched a so-called "plastic free aisle in Amsterdam. The outlet is characterized by the no-plastic nature of both its fixtures and the products used for the containers and wrapping for the food items it sells.
On Great Britain, an island just west of the Netherlands, Prime Minister Theresa May is surely ecstatic, knowing that the Dutch are following up on her own urging that supermarkets should become more responsible for not selling plastic in the form of "necessary" wrappings for food -- and "trappings of wealth".
Instead plastics are trapping fish, trapping birds, trapping all of us in a mire of pollution and global warming, and wrapping up clean water, clean soil, and clean air in the sense of bringing these once pristine life-givers to an end!
Oh, how I wish I were in Amsterdam today! What a pleasure it would be to go to Ekplaza's store and purchase only food and other compostable items (in the form of the wrapping and containers) used to cover the food as it moves from the hands of the sellers to those of the purchasers.
After I got home I would be able to enjoy the food items I had purchased without having to sort out glass, plastic or metals when I was finished consuming them. Everything would be either edible or compostable!
As I write this blog on this last day of the shortest month of the year, I hope that by next year at this time Ekoplaza will have established outlets in (to name three towns on Earth that are particularly dear to me):
Monmouth, Oregon;
Yokohama, Japan;
and Stanley in the Falkland Islands.
The trash I am always picking up as I go about my daily life is good for weight control, because plenty of exercise is involved in dealing with its sorting and disposal. Other than that, however, it has been a depressing thing to be faced with the continual tensions that arise in what, until today, had seemed to be a losing battle.
Fellow Earthlings, purchase Ekoplaza stock! It can only rise! And the more it rises, the greater is the possibility that we can stop treating plastic as a product rather than as what it truly is: the greatest contributor to Earth's worsening air quality and the climate change that is bringing about what could culminate in the extinction of most if not all of her life forms.
From today, let's commit ourselves to opening Ekoplaza outlets and their spin-offs all over Earth!
Steve Walker
Earthsaver and Jingles Creator
© 2013 Steve Walker, The Jingles-The Japan Foundation for English Pronunciation, Summit Enterprises.