The Solution to the Plastic Waste Crisis? It Isn’t Recycling
15th January 2020
The Guardian wags its finger.
Telling people what they can throw out and recycle is important, but corporations and governments that are in the business of growth do not want to address the real problem: the vast and escalating quantity of plastic and other stuff that people buy, use a bit and then throw away. Along with celebrities, “influencers” and PR companies, they seek to create needs for things we never knew we wanted, and then manipulate us to buy more of everything. Bombarded by advertisements, we are then persuaded that the more we binge-shop, the more fulfilling and satisfying our lives will be.
Hear that? All of you unenlightened people are being shits but it’s not your fault — you’re just puppets in the hands of Bad Guys who make you do Bad Things. (Like vote for Trump.)