I feel like we should be able to have a class action to ban the use of nonbiodegradable materials in packaging. At the very least there needs to be a 100% tariff on virgin plastics
I so hope that something happens from this.
Meme reaction is a very low hanging fruit, surprised Pikachu would have been another easy pick.
Source for guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/feb/15/recycling-plastics-producers-report
As always: Posting and liking memes is great, but real change comes from actions. If you are as concerned as we are about climate change, please consider joining or supporting climate activists near you.
As long as lobbyists walk this planet ain’t shit happening.
We need to fire all lobbyists… into the sun
In theory lobbyists are exactly what we need. Professionals with real world knowledge about thier industry and section of society. You cannot expect any of the people holding office to know details about everything.
It’s supposed to be like a leader surrounding himself with experts in thier fields.
… But of course in reality people want money.
That’s yet another problem: people holding office, in charge of something they don’t know shit about. Wasn’t the guy in charge of the EPA an oil exec, and nobody batted an eye?
Except lobbying isn’t experts giving an opinion, it’s rich people giving money. The only expertise the lobbyists ever have is knowledge on how to make money, since in order to get enough of it to lobby, you need to devote your life to it. The people who have enough expertise to legitimately advise the government on science don’t make anywhere near enough to lobby.
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The exact same thing happened with fossil fuels. When I told people online that fossil fuel companies have known about human-induced climate change since the 1950’s, it seemed to elicit no reaction whatsoever. It’s such a huge deal that absolutely nobody seems to care about.
I guess if they can actually be proven to have broken laws that would be a sort of win…
It’s been a while since they tried to convince us there was some magical recycling sorting machine again. Seriously they just keep making the consumer feel like shit and place the blame on them, when the single most effective way to fix the problem is significantly reduce or eliminate the products made.
Haven’t we already know this for a decade?
Hello, this feels like an appropriate place for me to plug a service I recently discovered: Ridwell!
Obviously it sucks that most plastic isn’t being recycled and I wish this service could be offered free of charge, but if you have the means it’s a great way to reduce your plastic waste! I swear I don’t work for them, I just really like that a big chunk of my plastic waste is suddenly being repurposed instead of landfilled.
And they also help me recycle some things I’ve been collecting forever without understanding how to properly dispose of, like batteries, old clothes, and electronics.
I hope to god you are not getting scammed on just like this one did:
German documentary. Skip to minuite 57. The company did round about the same that your example does. Everyone was happy and believed them. In this specific minuite the reporters show one of the volunteering persons, that helped collect the trash for the company for years, that even her neatly packaged plastic waste from herself and her neighbourghood just simply got shipped across the sea and dumped on a landfill.
The company made some lucrative business here. On the back of naive enough citicen, that wanted to improve the situation.
I can’t get anything other than an ad to play on that site and I don’t speak German so I wasn’t able to poke around - so I’ll take your word for it. I suppose there’s definitely a risk here, but my hope is that since the plastic is being repurposed for construction in a for-profit company, there’s more incentive to actually do it. The alternative being actually recycling the plastic back into its constituent forms, which I imagine is harder and less profitable. Is the latter what the documentary company was doing?
Do you think the government didn’t know?
Pixar exposed the Truth about how trash was processed, in Toy Story 3 (2010).
Magnetize metals, burn the rest in FIRE!
“Drill, baby, drill”.
(US politicians aren’t fixing shit.)
