• ImplyingImplications@lemmy.ca
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    7 months ago

    80s: corporations send hundreds of tonnes of trash to landfills while people are told to reduce the trash they generate

    90s: corporations make everything plastic and disposable while people are told to recycle

    00s: corporations cover the atmosphere in greenhouse gasses while people are told to reduce their carbon footprint.

    10s: corporations buy politicians while people are told to vote.

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      7 months ago

      90s: corporations make everything plastic and disposable while people are told to recycle

      It’s worse than that: the plastics industry tells us to recycle – even going so far as to plagiarize the recycling symbol into the resin identification codes – despite knowing from the beginning that recycling plastic was mostly never going to be a viable thing. They did this purely to shift blame to consumers because the only way their business model worked was to not be held accountable for their waste.