Engineering360: "Greenpeace challenges popular solutions for reducing plastic pollution"

Paper alternatives to plastic packaging negatively impact forests, essentially exchanging one problem for another. The report states that "logging and large-scale industrial tree plantations drive natural forest loss degradation, emitting huge amounts of CO₂."

www.twosides.info/myths-and-facts claims re European paper industry:

European forests are growing year-on-year. They supply 90% of the wood used by the European paper industry.

73.3% of paper is recycled in Europe - close to the practical maximum of 78%.

53% of the fibre used by the European paper industry comes from paper for recycling.

The paper industry's CO2 emissions reduced by 25% between 2005 and 2017

Oh David you forgot the old adage; "never let truth get in the way of a good news story!"

It seems that Greenpeace is not happy with the ways things are - fair enough, they do need changing and we all need to consume less.

But GP doesn't like any of the solutions and keeps repeating the same mantra without any practical input into solving the problem.

Reminds me of Brexit - lots of people saying "I don't like that" to each and every proposal.

Shouting from the sidelines is easy, coming up with solutions is difficult - time to bring in the Engineers!