A Plastic Free February!
Plastic. If there was one material that could be chosen to represent mankind over the last 50 years plastic would almost certainly be it. Once heralded as the solution to many problems of decades gone by, we now understand that our relentless use of plastic has presented us with a wealth of new problems to be solved in the modern day. I love this little image, and it's message will be important to the experiment as you will see later. Let's face it, in many ways plastic is pretty impressive. As a light material (in comparison to say glass) it helped to revolutionise packaging, lightening the load of many a plane, boat and lorry and thereby helping to reduce carbon emissions and transport costs. As a flexible and durable material it also helped to ensure that breakages and spillages of those same loads were also greatly reduced. It's ability to repel water make it an ideal choice for a whole host of different applications from our clothing, to the bags we carry...