Teen innovator vs corporate pollutersfrom @zephzoid

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This is proof nobody with real money is solving real problems. An 18 year old student in Ireland spent years studying microplastics after an earlier project let her detect them best never removed them, no she developed a plant based biodegradable plastic that releases an enzyme to help destroy other plastic waste in surrounding soil and water. And just this year, she won the European category of a major teen environmental prize earning $12,500 to continue the work. Sounds great, but just think about how little that is. The global plastics market was valued at $524,000,000,000 just a few years ago. And Coca Cola, named the world's top plastic polluter six years in a row by the break free from plastics rank audits, quietly dropped its 2022 pledge to make 25% of its packaging reusable by tier. Oceana estimates Coca Cola alone pulls out between a 120 and a 137,000,000,000 single use plastic bottles a year, and microplastics have now been detected in everything from human blood to brain tissue by multiple independent research groups. So we've reached a point where a teenager with just over 10 k is working on removing this, but the industry with 524,000,000,000 is still arguing about whether to make less. This is why we can't trust major corporations to change our health for the better. It's going to come from consumers supporting corporations to better our health for the better. It's going to come from consumers supporting innovative research and funding the people actually trying to make an impact around them. Where we put our dollars better, and this is why we should be buying from local and small independent brands. We created the Localize app exactly for this purpose no you can buy direct from small farmers on the app whenever you can.