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it's tuesday june 21st, 2022. I'm Jackson Bird today. More and more countries are banning

single-use plastics, but what alternatives are available? One team of scientists has developed

an antimicrobial spray that could replace plastic food packaging.

Plus, how Colonial Williamsburg is working to incorporate more of its queer past.

Here's some cool stuff for your ride home.

As more countries move to ban single-use plastics, discussion turns to what we should be using instead.

Here in New York City, we banned plastic bags right around the start of the pandemic.

Two years later, I have finally just about run out of the stash of plastic bags I had collected to reuse for other

purposes and have now been considering what I will use instead. Over in Wales, they're discussing

including wet wipes in their plastic bag ban, and that's one that I know will hit a lot of people,

especially parents, pretty hard. Know as you might how bad they are for the

environment, with the vast majority of wet wipes containing plastic. If you've got a sticky, messy

kid with you when you're away from home, a wet wipe that you can use and then throw away

is the most efficient and sanitary option a lot of the times. Having to carry around a bunch of washable cloths that you then keep on your

person after they've been soiled doesn't exactly appeal to most people.

Even though plenty of folks have already made that transition and, you know, that's exactly

what we did back before plastic took over our lives.

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