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plastic is also killing us; in our air, water, products and foods.

The whole world's economies are mostly driven by consumerism. Even the #UNSDG focus on consumerism. As buyers we can choose to buy plastic products or not. Manufacturers want money more than sustainability. If we want sustainability, then that's where we need to spend our income.

IMO every product that is brought to market should have a full lifecycle associated with it, so the impact can be measured and known by governments and consumers. Anything that can’t be repaired or recycled should have a tax imposed

I always look at every single little plastic toy kids bring home from fast food places, play with them for an hour, then, all done! 😑

Good one.

I have never heard that before. One has to wonder if there was some temporary problem in the manufacturing process. There are certainly early barbies that have survived intact.

that image breaks my heart

Adjust the deposits on bottles and cans ⬆️ for inflation, incentivize paper bags, fund grants for development of automated refuse sorting and support #righttorepair

The vast majority of oil-based plastics can be done better or replaced by hemp-based plastics.

24 years off bottled water. Someone tested sea salt from around the world, all but the Black Sea salt is 30% plastic.

We only have one planet. There's no planet B. Listen to Koko. 🦍 bsky.app/profile/xtra...

Like the Ouroboros capitalism is devouring the sustainability of our planet.For centuries societies have known $$ corrupts governments. If we do not tax billionaires out of existence NOW and redirect that money towards mitigating climate catastrophe humanity is screwed. Time is running out. ⏰

So sad!💔😪

The ruling class, the Epstein elites, care nothing for the future. They feel they have resources sufficient to insulate their kind from the ramifications of their wealth acquisition activities. We need to stop them, now.

Excellent Article! Actually just finished reading it on my Guardian feed, news you won't find in USA MSM ☹️ Why I subscribe to support them.

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

My state banned the thin plastic bags, charged for the thick ones, and ended up with more plastic than before.

He's here to clean your ears.

We won't get rid of plastics in packaging if liquids. Glass weight vs. plastics is much greater. Shipping costs would go up and of course that cost would be passed on to consumers.

I pay to recycle outside of what my city garbage & recycling offer. This is a great company. Ridwell share.google/OsHMAbC7ve8F...

Worth a try though.

Such a stark picture of what our plastic garbage is doing to the natural world. The trash islands in the Pacific are too big to even fit in a picture.

They're going to Mars or underground.

I remember when I 1st seen this pic. That tiny lil seahorse dealing w/what we as humans did to his home&life. So depressing. I seen how Crows are picking up cigarette butts& throwing them away in exchange for treats. That isn't their job, but they've always been better than us...all animals are.

So what's the replacement? Don't just tell me this is evil and then say give it up without giving us an alternative that isn't worse

Heartbreaking, absolutely fucking heartbreaking. I have been recycling and adamant for 30 years with this shit. Only to learn that all my stress and hard work.And everything that I fucking freaked out about doesn't mean a goddam fucking thing. #Carney Do Better. Absolutely disgusted in this

That’s s one of the saddest pictures I’ve ever seen

This. Maybe it costs a little more to buy beverages in glass. We take back our glass cold brew growlers, sanitize them & reuse them until they break (extremely rare) hundreds of times req less virgin sand & embodied energy. To scale businesses need credits or cost of procuder waste responsibility

Still pretty upset about Captain Planet being propaganda. I loved that show in elementary school 😞

What an appalling, sad, and telling, photo. Ugh. We suck. We support that. Consumers make this all possible.

When your entire focus in the earnings for the next quarter, you don't give much thought to long term consequences. I believe the mentality is, "I'll be retired with a big bonus before the shit hits the fan".

So, unless we can go back to cotton, linen, wool, and other natural fibres, cellophane, butcher paper, wax paper we will still have all the waste fabric and of course all the plastics that we have become accustomed to-toys, dishes, decor etc. oof, just a bit depressing.

Is there a way we can all push food manufacturers to stop with all the plastic. My one little voice and my shopping doesn’t seem to make an impact. Seems like every day there is more and more in plastic

In conclusion, we are all paying for their incompetence and greed, all those responsible for this calamity happening to our beloved and beautiful planet

They lacked the ability to predict the future. Hmmm.

Test tube fragile glass not good around children or hard floors. Tempered is costly. Anyway, that may turn out to be the least of our problems.

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You mean when you were a child with no responsibilities and your mother didn't work.

Broke my heart to see the little sea horse with the cotton wool bud 🥺

Cotton buds are FAR BETTER and sustainable, made with BAMBOO.

Just say no to plastic whenever you can.

I hate plastic

Well the countries that arent the usa could ban most plastics in the meanwhile

It's in our bodies!! And it's in their bodies as well.

Plastic is already in our bodies. Could this be the cause of autism?

A few hundred Luigi’s might be a good start,

www.huffpost.com/entry/vintag...

Humans are a virus. youtu.be/mgS1Lwr8gq8?...

My neighborhood squirrels take tiny bites out of plastic litter because of winter hunger. If the plastic was unavailable they would search for real sustenance.