I’m not really losing my mind. But seeing so much plastic and not being able to talk about it is weighing heavily on me.
Plastic is everywhere. Literally everything comes packaged in plastic. Most of the stuff is made from plastic. It’s not gonna biodegrade. Can’t incinerate it either. It’s sent to landfills. It chokes birds, cows and seahorses to death. There are literal islands of plastic trash in the ocean. It’s even inside us as micro (soon to be macro) plastics.
Meanwhile corporations have gaslit the world about the wonders of recycling. Plastic is very dear to them because it is even cheaper than it is convenient. Only 30% of the plastic produced in India is ever recycled.
I feel like in the future plastic is gonna have to be tossed into the space or some shit like that.
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Plastic may actually be driving us all crazy. Given that there has been some studies linking microplastics and other chemicals from plastics that can cause or be a factor in some mental health issues. I wouldn’t be surprised if they played a bigger factor than what’s reported anyway. I mean ffs the seed oil industry lied to us for decades about the safety of their highly processed, rancid oils and even now when you try and talk about it everyone thinks you’re crazy. Don’t forget the sugar industry and also the fake sugar industry, arguably worse. Also leaded gasoline, where it took literal decades of fighting to finally force the petroleum industry to stop putting literal neurotoxins in gasoline, and is still a thing in some countries… All it takes to get a potentially poisonous food (or other) item approved and promoted by the FDA, American Heart Association, etc, is a nice fat donation. The buyout of US regulatory bodies isn’t something recent. They have been doing it for years.
As far as plastics go… they already have being lying about recycling. What is it’s like, 80% of recycled plastics can’t actually be recycled? Something about it was all a lie to make people ok with how much trash they were producing? Because otherwise people were starting to freak out because they had never had so much trash before… lol Now that the cats out of the bag though it’s all been normalized so so no one gives a shit.
Yeah recycling is a propaganda campaign of sorts. Because it lets off the hook those companies that rely heavily on plastic. Coca Cola for example funds recycling efforts as long as they don’t support something called “bottle bills” because that would make it so that Coca Cola would have to foot the bill for the garbage they are causing rather than externalising it to the rest of the world.
Moments after I commented here I saw this on reddit.
At least most of the comments are people pointing out how much plastic is being used unnecessarily.
Nothing lays bare the “capitalism is efficient” nonsense better than following the supply chain of food being processed and packaged for treat enjoyers in the global north. The chain has to be decently decetralised otherwise one of the nodes could end up accumulating too much bargaining power. So the products are moved around to a bunch of different places between different stages of production to keep the prices in dollars low at great cost to the environment and common sense.
The worst thing about plastic pollution is bottled water. There’s literally 0 reason to have bottled water sold at such a high frequency. Water in most places around the world is perfectly drinkable. But because of companies like Evian and their shitty propaganda, billions of plastic water bottles are sold every day, only to be thrown away mere hours later.
It’s even worse that in a lot of places bottled water is the ONLY option you get.
If we banned bottled water, we could probably cut down plastic pollution by something like 10-20%
I have been wanting to check up what tap water is like where I live. All middle class and upper homes have RO water purification systems at home. I am not sure if this because of necessity or propaganda.
Plastic sucks. There are some materials on the horizon like PLA that will make it better, but they’re less profitable and you know how that goes. Plastic really illustrates why liberal approaches don’t work because you can’t shop your way out of the entire mode of production using plastic. Even if you manage to do “zero waste”, you’re essentially just removing the plastic from the point of consumption, since the entire chain of production and transit uses plastic. What’s sinister is the “alternatives” like paper fiber bowls instead of plastic ones, are usually just full of flame removedants, which are much worse.
Even if you manage to do “zero waste”, you’re essentially just removing the plastic from the point of consumption, since the entire chain of production and transit uses plastic.
This is part of why I think unnecessary plastic usage is gonna continue for many generations to come. Looking around you see so much plastic but even that is just scratching the surface.
Yea. Honestly we need to bring back glass bottles and metal bottles for this exact reason.
