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.
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.