TESTIMONIAL EUROPE 1
For two years, Muriel, 49, has said no to plastic. After watching a documentary about a plastic dump at sea, she decided to drastically ban this material from her daily life. Thursday, at the microphone of Olivier Delacroix, on Europe 1, she returns to the meaning she gives to her approach and details how concretely it has changed her daily life.
"In my life, the plastic had taken up a lot of space, I had plenty of it in my fridge, in my bathroom but also in the office, I went from time to time to get a salad served in a plastic bowl, with plastic cutlery ...
But two years ago a documentary, broadcast on the Thalassa show, was a trigger. He showed how the plastic that ended up at sea was absorbed by red mullet and was thus found on our plates. It made me realize that this invasion of plastic involved the entire food chain and that there was a risk to our health too.
From there, I realized how plastic was present in our lives and I observed the amount of plastic and plastic waste that a family could consume in a week, a month, a year. For example, when you go to the supermarket, you see everywhere. It's very hard to find products that are not packaged. I also discovered that there was plastic in the form of fibers in our quilts, in our pillows and in our clothes as long as they are synthetic.
Muriel then decides to commit and creates an association that aims to reduce the consumption of plastic
With other citizens, it was noted that recycling was a good thing but unfortunately only 21% of the plastic was recycled in France. In addition, we produce an average of 350 million tons of plastic each year worldwide, and every year production increases by 4%. So if this continues, soon we will exceed the 500 million tons of plastic produced per year. It is delusional and poses a major environmental and health problem.
I realize that it is not easy to go to zero plastic right away. Especially in our modern lives, plastic is practical. Our idea, with the association, is to try not to overly complicate our lives, to see how to reduce our plastic impact and how to push producers to pack less by making real consumer choices. For example, the bulk is great, the impact is much lower and often it's cheaper buying this way. The gourd is also a stupid practice. I have one 50cl that I always with me. In France, we are lucky to have tap water of very good quality. There is no reason to consume bottled water. Already if we stopped it in France, we would massively reduce our consumption of plastic. "