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minus-squareNakoichi [they/them]hexbear16·2 years agoPlastic bag bans are just recuperation and greenwashing. Plastic bags are not the problem, capitalism is. link
minus-squareDolores [love/loves]hexbear7·2 years agowhat'd actually work is taxing stores for single-use plastics but noooo only the consumer can eat the costs of going green link
minus-squareNakoichi [they/them]hexbear4·2 years agoInstead they just banned plastic bags outright and let the stores charge for paper bags as compensation for enforcing the mandate. Now that I think about it that is a perfect encapsulation of neoliberalism. link
Plastic bag bans are just recuperation and greenwashing. Plastic bags are not the problem, capitalism is.
what'd actually work is taxing stores for single-use plastics but noooo only the consumer can eat the costs of going green
Instead they just banned plastic bags outright and let the stores charge for paper bags as compensation for enforcing the mandate.
Now that I think about it that is a perfect encapsulation of neoliberalism.