Popular blog Gizmodo has gone to the dark side and is promoting plastic replica Star Wars helmets.
The title might be a tongue in cheek nod to the concern that it growing over plastic consumption. The post is entitled ‘Stormtrooper Replica Helmet Looks Great, Costs the Earth and Smells of Plastic’
The company marketing these pointless things is doing its part to reduce plastic by offering it as a limited edition and charging an insane amount of money for it. If Chad Vadar has been in charge of this merchandising, he might have given people the options of paper or plastic.
My old ‘boss’ at the organic fair trade coffee roastery was traveling with a group of us to a conference and the subject of Star Wars came up. He ended up confessing that he couldn’t keep Star Wars and Star Trek straight. My admiration for him shot up at that moment.
