TEDx Great Pacific Garbage Patch: Challenge to Plastic Product Manufacturers

One of four challenges presented to the world at the TEDx Great Pacific Garbage patch event.

The challenge to Plastic Product Manufacturers includes: * We challenge you to accept a voluntary cap on non-biodegradable product, and to begin investing resources into developing a new generation plastic product -- plant-based, non-toxic in any stage of its existence, biodegradable. * We challenge you to own the responsibility of your product till the very end. The packaging you choose to for your products is your responsibility, not the buyer's. * We challenge you to rethink design of products -- to reduce both carbon footprint and plastic footprint of your goods shipped around the world.

Category:

Nonprofits & Activism

Tags:

• TEDx
• TEDxGreatPacificGarbage Patch
• Cradle-to-cradle
• Rethink design
• disposable plastic
• Wallace J Nichols
• Great Pacific Garbage Patch
• plastic
• plastic pollution

[joestauffacher]

Women are responsible for 80% of all spending... Women are mother's and protectors of their young... It's cool to hear him say that women are starting to protect their children from modern enemies. :-)

[oceanrev]

Full TED talk is here:

youtube.com/watch?v=wyEyisJmCZ­k