Goodbye to packaging madness

Have you taken a sensible look in your garbage can lately? Plastic packaging as far as the eye can see. And why is that? Because single-use plastic packaging is more profitable (at least in the short term) than reusable systems within our economic system. Packaging avoidance also plays virtually no role. This is because the economic price of the containers is negligible. The fact that all this packaging is essentially made from crude oil and therefore causes considerable GHG emissions is insignificant in the current system. And anyone who believes that most of the raw materials from their properly separated packaging waste will be recycled again is mistaken. In most cases, this is not profitable and they are simply "thermally recycled", which means nothing other than that they are used in waste incineration plants to generate electricity. Sustainability looks different.

 

"We should decouple climate protection from the monetary system

so that a yoghurt pot can become a yoghurt pot again."

 

Although many things we consume every day can be produced very cheaply in economic terms, they come at a high price for the environment.  The ECO climate currency creates a new reality here. It puts an end to the waste of raw materials and illusory recycling by breaking the throwaway mentality and making material-saving recycling systems more attractive. The ECO creates a direct link between our consumption and its emissions. It assesses the crude oil contained in plastic packaging with its actual CO2 equivalent and prices it transparently. It finally gives things their true ecological value in addition to their marginal economic price. The ECO not only functions as a separate emissions price tag, but also as an ecological basic income. All citizens would receive this climate currency in the same amount as a personal tradable CO2 budget on their climate account to pay for their individual GHG consumption. This creates an incentive for climate-friendly consumer behaviour and thus exerts the necessary decarbonization pressure on industrial processes without the need for state intervention.

 

Find out more at: www.saveclimate.earth