More time to do what exactly? Soft plastics are effectively unrecyclable. There are no commercial scale recycling plants in Australia which can recycle soft plastics. And even if we did build them the depolymerisation process which soft plastics require takes so much energy it'd be more environmentally sound to landfill it anyway.
The whole thing's a mess and really the only solution is to stop producing as much soft plastics.
Among scientists there wasn't any significant doubt twenty years ago. It was just spin doctors trying to pretend otherwise.
More than an inconvenience - they cost hundreds of millions in additional road wear every year which we all pay for.
I guess I was addressing the "living in poverty" part of the parent comment and the suggestion to downsize in your follow-up. I thought you meant to downsize to get some money to pay the bills. But it seems like you're saying to downsize to get a house which is easier to maintain?
I expect to hear in a few years that Carlson has been on the payroll of the Russians for years.
Nuclear is more expensive than renewables pretty much everywhere, and it's getting more expensive while renewables get cheaper.
Not so "Top Secret" any more, now that it's been in the news...
She really was in a sticky situation.
It was an attempted ad hominem attack which backfired on her. A stupid argument in the first place and even more stupid because she got it wrong.
Or having Lord as a name - which actually used to be somewhat popular in the US.
So all imperial measurements are factors of 12 apart?
At what point do Labor realise "Are we the baddies?"