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Honestly I wish journalists would quit blaming 'the world' for stuff like this. It's not 'the world' making all the plastic ... it's big oil and big companies that are.
You vote with your wallet. The Give-me-convenience-or-give-me-death cunts leave a trail of disposable contact lenses, toothpicks, dental floss sticks and single use kid's toys all around the beautiful European mountain area I live in.
It's just pure fucking selfishness and it's getting worse
You vote for the only options u have. Everyone is making this shit. No one is making bio plastics. You don't have the option to not buy a lot of the plastics you consume.
Yup. A while back I remember reading that Germany had a system in place that rated manufacturers' packaging based on recycling - the more unrecyclable/mixed media the packaging was, the higher the import fees/sale taxes..
Dunno if it's still like that, but it seems the most logical way to place the costs of plastic pollution where it belongs ... on the manufacturers.
Brash statement.
Some countries/areas offer options to avoid buying the vast majority of plastics. The problem is that its almost always more expensive to purchase the plastic free alternative.
When money is involved its pretty obvious what happens and what people pick
You have the option NOT to use anything I mentioned, but people do because of the "One snowflake never felt responsible for an avalanche" effect
The downvotes on your comments are only proving your point. People want others to reform but not themselves
The only valid excuse for not changing your lifestyle is if you cant afford to.
I checked my credit card statement and I can't find "57 million tons of plastic" anywhere on it.
Meanwhile, I'm walking through literally any store anywhere, and it seems like every conceivable piece of commercial merchandise is trapped in a six-inch thick plastic clam shell. Like, you routinely get more packaging than product. I'm not asking for this. I don't want to purchase it. But I'm told that anything not embedded in a plastic Ft. Knox has a 0.2% higher chance of being shoplifted, so I just need to accept this as a consequence of people voting without their wallets.
And in some countries, we don't vote at all.