Paying for all that plastic

“Wherever you are right now, you can probably reach out and touch at least five things that are made of plastic. The keyboard keys I’m writing this on are plastic, the phone is plastic, the handles to my scissors are plastic. My pens are plastic, the heads of the push-pins are plastic.”

Russell Wangersky Eastern Passages Russell Wangersky’s column appears in Salt Wire publications across Atlantic Canada. He can be reached at russell.wangersky@thetelegram.com — Twitter: @wangersky.
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