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.
I’m so worried about plastic, and keep seeing plastic where I think why? What’s the use of this? Sometimes supermarket products are wrapped in two layers of plastic, when it could be only one. I’m also very worried about microplastics and seeing that most microplastics are from car tires shows you why we need to reduce car use. Also seeing that a lot of plastic in the ocean is fishnets it also shows we need to reduce the fishing industry to reduce plastic there. I was in the Algarve on a desolate beach and I still found a lot of plastic, which I tried to carry with me to a trash can, wich shows you litterally can’t escape it.