They didn’t invent plastic recycling. They are, however, using it as an excuse to make more plastic. The EU had regulations against over packaging (like putting cucumbers in plastic) for a while until plastic recycling became a thing and they went ‘meh’.

Same thing with “carbon footprint”, which was invented by B.P to shift the blame for climate change onto the consumer.

I’m not saying don’t try to reduce your emissions by using electric vehicles, going plant based or at least reducing animal product intake, and limiting flying, just that it’s pretty meaningless in the whole scale of things, so instead of focusing on the individual, focus on organizing protests, disrupting, and other collective action.

Important to note that recycling some things makes sense, like metal. And recycling glass makes sense but sanitizing and reusing bottles makes alot more sense. There’s also been a push to compost as much paper product as possible since that makes way more sense than recycling paper. Our green bins now take any brown cardboard with no tape and pizza boxes.

I recycle when convenient. I have two cans the same company empties, one for trash one for recycling. I’ll fill the recycling, and overflow goes in the trash.

My wife hates it, but the amount of plastic trash that factories produce just blows consumer household recycling out of the water. There are people whose jobs include fillling a whole dumpster each shift. No comparison. Im not bending over backward to be little Dutch boy with my finger in the dam while it’s got a backhoe digging out the foundation.

I do wonder, maybe there is similar scheme when it comes to housing affordability. There is too much of a coincidence that much of the Western countries are having the same housing crisis. Most ordinary Westerners are perplexed to find out other countries also have the same issue, or are surprised they can’t find a place to live when they move abroad. There is a deliberate manipulation of the housing market and misinformation. Here in Ireland, after all, foreign vulture funds outbid locals and then either rent or sell properties at extortionate price. And yet, the wrong kind of foreigners are getting blamed.

A lot of right-wing people use this fact as an excuse to not care about the environment at all…

But I LOVE plastic!!

Manufacturers have no responsibility or regulation in packaging. Buy some items made of metal, and you still generate immediate plastic packaging waste. Some of that plastic has recycling symbols on them, but they can be fake, and again, no regulation.

So all we really recycle is clear PETG. 90% of recycling plastics are landfill. We put stuff in blue bins to remove consumer guilt.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iOtrvBdRx8I

someone still need to recycle stuff that’s being used. Not that I disagree that they’re trying to shfit to blame to consumers, just practically speaking

We have these groups of volunteers gathering trash along the roadside. The more they collect the more they can earn for their good cause or their organisation.

They’re being cheap cleanup for the companies that sell trash and by collecting trash they keep the stats down.

This meme is missing a third panel with a cancer patient in their death bed.

But they sell those soda branded shirts made out of soda bottles!! /s

microplastics might explain that epic rant about lobster.

If you’d recycled more, there wouldn’t have been any plastic to end up in your blood, organs, etc… Who’s really the one shirking responsibility?