This Plastic Mr. Fantastic

I do wonder, maybe there is similar scheme when it comes to housing affordability. There is too much of a coincidence that much of the Western countries are having the same housing crisis. Most ordinary Westerners are perplexed to find out other countries also have the same issue, or are surprised they can't find a place to live when they move abroad. There is a deliberate manipulation of the housing market and misinformation. Here in Ireland, after all, foreign vulture funds outbid locals and then either rent or sell properties at extortionate price. And yet, the wrong kind of foreigners are getting blamed.

Important to note that recycling some things makes sense, like metal. And recycling glass makes sense but sanitizing and reusing bottles makes alot more sense. There's also been a push to compost as much paper product as possible since that makes way more sense than recycling paper. Our green bins now take any brown cardboard with no tape and pizza boxes.

But I LOVE plastic!!

A lot of right-wing people use this fact as an excuse to not care about the environment at all...

Wait until OP hears about the evils of cardboard recycling, I drive by daily and see the towering eternal flame of methane. Sadly methane is sneaky and not all of it gets burned.

I'm old enough to have both lead and plastic in my brain, lungs, and testicles. I envy you youngins with only plastic in you.

Manufacturers have no responsibility or regulation in packaging. Buy some items made of metal, and you still generate immediate plastic packaging waste. Some of that plastic has recycling symbols on them, but they can be fake, and again, no regulation.

So all we really recycle is clear PETG. 90% of recycling plastics are landfill. We put stuff in blue bins to remove consumer guilt.

They didn't invent plastic recycling. They are, however, using it as an excuse to make more plastic. The EU had regulations against over packaging (like putting cucumbers in plastic) for a while until plastic recycling became a thing and they went 'meh'.

Same thing with "carbon footprint", which was invented by B.P to shift the blame for climate change onto the consumer.

I'm not saying don't try to reduce your emissions by using electric vehicles, going plant based or at least reducing animal product intake, and limiting flying, just that it's pretty meaningless in the whole scale of things, so instead of focusing on the individual, focus on organizing protests, disrupting, and other collective action.

I make the shit full time so I think I'm 50/50 ken doll/human by now.

This is a PSA that as a whole, the plastics recycling and packaging industry isn't well regulated, and all those plastic drink and soda bottles at the grocery store that now say "Made with recycled plastics"? You have NO idea what type of plastics are in there now or the level of decay, and neither do the manufacturers.

Do not drink out of, eat out of, or wear anything that is made from recycled plastics.

Recycled plastics encountered in the world should be assumed to be toxic unless you know for certain they aren't, and should not be considered fit for food use, medical use, or prolonged human contact.

I recycle when convenient. I have two cans the same company empties, one for trash one for recycling. I'll fill the recycling, and overflow goes in the trash.

My wife hates it, but the amount of plastic trash that factories produce just blows consumer household recycling out of the water. There are people whose jobs include fillling a whole dumpster each shift. No comparison. Im not bending over backward to be little Dutch boy with my finger in the dam while it's got a backhoe digging out the foundation.

What are we supposed to believe will save the world now?

save yourself first before thinking of others

Throw your plastic in the garbage! Many first world nations ship their unrecyclabe refuse to third world countries, don't let your governments ship the problem away, make them accountable.

If you'd recycled more, there wouldn't have been any plastic to end up in your blood, organs, etc... Who's really the one shirking responsibility?