Let me talk trash again
There is this one topic you must have noticed coming up in all of my latest stories. My war against plastic. I can be seen with that reusable cup all day long, with tea in it on my way to work, water throughout the day, and ice tea after lunch… I bring my own water bottle, reuse bags until they basically fall apart – but on some days, I’m too slow to say “no straw please”, or I can’t find what I need without plastic packaging – or people simply don’t get what my problem is. One of the students saw me wash out the bag I had bought rice in. “What are you doing?” she asked. “So I can use again”, I answered in that simplified English I needed to use with them. And immediately she offered to organize a new bag for me, no problem. Plastic is everywhere. A study recently even found it in human poop. And while in Germany the “zero waste movement” is growing and more and more people are aware of the problems plastic causes, that we need to stop consuming it if we want to save what w