. Yet most of the plastic waste just gets shipped to Malaysia,
yup. It's all over SEA they just dump this shit, literally just show up and dump it. The Philippines actually re-delivered the trash Canada just dropped off on an island there because they dumped it without paying anyone, I know there is other countries and small islands dealing with this same exact thing from the US and other places.
I take all bottles and cans to an actual recycling center and get paid for it. It's not a ton of money but at least there I know they are recycling most of it. But they don't accept random other pieces of plastic which is a big problem, not much I can do personally besides actually limit what I buy, but that of course has its own limits since it's unavoidable for certain things. That's about as "personal responsibility" as it gets, if there is an alternative and you can buy it, probably worth it, but realistically it's hardly even a dent so if you can't buy alternatives no one should fault you for that.
We're using plastic at such an absurd rate but they try to make you feel guilty about it when it's the people packaging that shit that are forcing us to have it. You cannot buy certain things without plastic and there is no real global plan for changing this on the scale that needs to happen. I've been hearing about that so called organism they are attempting to make that can eat plastic but it still a long way away from being a reality. The ocean is absolutely fucked, I've seen so many pictures of them opening up dead whale or other large sea creatures stomachs and it's filled with plastics.
100%. There's plastic in the bodies of the creatures living at the bottom of the Challenger Deep. Many of these tiny creatures are also the main source of food for a lot of ocean fish. The plastic then gets ingested by them and then on from there. It's everywhere
Yeah, the sheer scale and pervasiveness of the problem so clearly shows that you cannot do anything about this by just building bottom-up market pressure. That never fucking works. It didn't work with leaded gasoline, it didn't work with CFCs, of course it won't work with plastics either, or with CO2 emissions for that matter.
yup. It's all over SEA they just dump this shit, literally just show up and dump it. The Philippines actually re-delivered the trash Canada just dropped off on an island there because they dumped it without paying anyone, I know there is other countries and small islands dealing with this same exact thing from the US and other places.
I take all bottles and cans to an actual recycling center and get paid for it. It's not a ton of money but at least there I know they are recycling most of it. But they don't accept random other pieces of plastic which is a big problem, not much I can do personally besides actually limit what I buy, but that of course has its own limits since it's unavoidable for certain things. That's about as "personal responsibility" as it gets, if there is an alternative and you can buy it, probably worth it, but realistically it's hardly even a dent so if you can't buy alternatives no one should fault you for that.
We're using plastic at such an absurd rate but they try to make you feel guilty about it when it's the people packaging that shit that are forcing us to have it. You cannot buy certain things without plastic and there is no real global plan for changing this on the scale that needs to happen. I've been hearing about that so called organism they are attempting to make that can eat plastic but it still a long way away from being a reality. The ocean is absolutely fucked, I've seen so many pictures of them opening up dead whale or other large sea creatures stomachs and it's filled with plastics.
100%. There's plastic in the bodies of the creatures living at the bottom of the Challenger Deep. Many of these tiny creatures are also the main source of food for a lot of ocean fish. The plastic then gets ingested by them and then on from there. It's everywhere
Yeah, the sheer scale and pervasiveness of the problem so clearly shows that you cannot do anything about this by just building bottom-up market pressure. That never fucking works. It didn't work with leaded gasoline, it didn't work with CFCs, of course it won't work with plastics either, or with CO2 emissions for that matter.