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Unfortunately the answer to plastic pollution isn't recycling. You can recycle all you want, and each year there will still be more plastic than the year before just because of how much plastic is being produced every day.
Making toys made of recycled materials is not a solution to this problem. It might make you and your clients feel good (and might be a good business idea), but it's not a viable solution if your primary reason is to help deal with plastic pollution. Even if you use 10 tonnes of recycled plastic a year to make your toys, it won't change the fact that 1000000x more plastic (or whatever the number is) is being produced each year.
I think that the most viable way to help deal with plastic pollution would probably have something to do with manufacturing new, environment-friendly materials that could replace plastic. The catch is that these materials would have to have a much smaller footprint and at the same time be so much cheaper and easier that it would be a no-brainer for companies to stop using plastic. This is extremely difficult to achieve, but well, where there's a high barrier of entry, there's a potential for a billion-dollar company.
This problem is explained well here:
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RS7IzU2VJIQ
Making toys made of recycled materials is not a solution to this problem. It might make you and your clients feel good (and might be a good business idea), but it's not a viable solution if your primary reason is to help deal with plastic pollution. Even if you use 10 tonnes of recycled plastic a year to make your toys, it won't change the fact that 1000000x more plastic (or whatever the number is) is being produced each year.
I think that the most viable way to help deal with plastic pollution would probably have something to do with manufacturing new, environment-friendly materials that could replace plastic. The catch is that these materials would have to have a much smaller footprint and at the same time be so much cheaper and easier that it would be a no-brainer for companies to stop using plastic. This is extremely difficult to achieve, but well, where there's a high barrier of entry, there's a potential for a billion-dollar company.
This problem is explained well here: