The plastic industry knowingly pushed recycling myth for decades [video]
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Re: The plastic industry knowingly pushed recycling myth for decades [video]
#2The sugar industry did something similar, how many hazards are we ignoring today that our children will hate us for?
Re: The plastic industry knowingly pushed recycling myth for decades [video]
#3I think the vast majority of people still believe it.
Re: The plastic industry knowingly pushed recycling myth for decades [video]
#4And unfortunately, there’s not a lot that can be done. Congress is not going to go against the plastic, packaging and bottling industry, or the petroleum industry. The best we could hope for is a tariff on plastic products, or large state taxes on plastic bottles, packaging, and fill material.
Re: The plastic industry knowingly pushed recycling myth for decades [video]
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Re: The plastic industry knowingly pushed recycling myth for decades [video]
#7The sugar industry did something similar, how many hazards are we ignoring today that our children will hate us for?
And the tobacco industry.
And the oil and gas industry (especially later with fraccing, and the earthquakes that followed).
Our children will be caught up in the usual capitalism cycle that we are in, only occasionally stopping to realize how our collective choices have added more and more problems to our lives.
Re: The plastic industry knowingly pushed recycling myth for decades [video]
#8The sugar industry did something similar, how many hazards are we ignoring today that our children will hate us for?
The idea the individual consumer is responsible for policing industry is farcical on the face of it.
Re: The plastic industry knowingly pushed recycling myth for decades [video]
#9And unfortunately, there’s not a lot that can be done. Congress is not going to go against the plastic, packaging and bottling industry, or the petroleum industry. The best we could hope for is a tariff on plastic products, or large state taxes on plastic bottles, packaging, and fill material.
So work on local locals first.
You don't need the federal government to solve this problem for you.
Everyone from your city to your state can be pressured to add to the cost of plastic.
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