Chameleon Magazine

 🌍🍾In the ultimate plot twist that absolutely no one saw coming (except, you know, scientists, environmentalists, and anyone with eyes), we’ve just remembered that glass—yes, that old-timey soda-bottle, milkman-era, see-through miracle—is endlessly recyclable. Unlike plastic, which seems to multiply like gremlins in a rainstorm, glass can be recycled forever. As in, until the sun explodes. Meanwhile, plastic’s best-case scenario is being turned into a slightly sadder version of itself until it eventually becomes micro-trash for whales and toddlers to share.

💥 Plastic’s PR Team Has Had Us Tricked for Decades

Let’s review: glass is made from sand, doesn’t leach toxins, doesn’t morph into invisible death confetti, and can be re-used so many times it could legally qualify for reincarnation. So why did we ditch it? Convenience. Cost. And a plastic industry with the charm of a Bond villain and the lobbying power of a thousand oil barons in matching Patagonia fleeces.

Sure, glass is heavier. But so are the consequences of pretending plastic isn’t strangling the planet like a cling-filmed boa constrictor. Every flimsy bottle and disposable cup we tossed “away” in the ‘90s is still out there—somewhere—living its best life in a whale’s intestine or orbiting a turtle’s neck like a dystopian friendship bracelet. 🐢💔

Now we’re staring at a global garbage pile so big it could get its own postcode, wondering how we just now realized glass was the better idea all along. It’s like breaking up with your high-school sweetheart for a sexy toxic fling, only to realise 30 years later that the sweetheart was hot, stable, and infinitely more sustainable.

But hey, at least we got some cool plastic straws out of it… oh wait. 🫠

♻️ Challenges ♻️

What will it take to snap out of our plastic trance? A dolphin-led intervention? A sea made entirely of Coke bottles? Or maybe just enough of us saying “no thanks” to plastic and “hell yes” to glass like it’s 1952 and the milkman just pulled up?