#plasticindustry — Public Fediverse posts

I'm bleeding right now because of capitalism.

Let me explain one by one:
* capitalism produces shitty products that have to be replaced regularly
* they send them in oversized cardboard boxes to be able to add more plastic around the product
* the cardboard box is more durable than the product
* i have more than once been yelled at by neighbors for putting boxes in the wastepaper bin without making them smaller first (usually they were filled with wastepaper, but the neighbors didn't see that)
* if capitalism didn't produce so much garbage, or there was enough money for a more frequent garbage collection, the neighbors wouldn't be stingy about space in the bin
* but capitalism wants us to be angry and miserable
* to avoid getting yelled at again I just tried to crunch a very big, very sturdy box
* I stepped on it
* the box didn't give in
* i slipped
* fell
* and hit my head
* hard

Die capitalism, die!

#capitalism #consumption #PlannedObsolescence #PlasticPollution #PlasticIndustry #EWaste #hate #consumerism #AddingInsultToInjury #CompostTheRich #EndCapitalism

Although this video’s title implies the main topic is plastic pollution in the oceans, it actually goes into more detail about the industry as a whole including recycling, plastics from paint, petrostates, and oil companies.

https://youtu.be/IglBJ62Sv3Q

#plastics #PlasticIndustry #PlasticPollution #OilIndustry #Petrostates

Tackle plastic #waste now
" #Thailand ranks among top 10 #global #contributors to #marine #plastic #pollution. 🇹🇭 produces ~2 mil tonnes of #plasticwaste p.a. yet only 25% is #recycled - most ends up in the sea.. Pollution Control Dept's attempts to impose #taxes on plastic hv been stuck in #parliament since the 1990s due to powerful #lobbying from the #plasticindustry. Subsequent #governments have made #noeffort to revive or resubmit these proposals"
https://www.bangkokpost.com/opinion/opinion/2861063/tackle-plastic-waste-now

Companies and other entities are buying “plastic credits” allowing them to offset every ton of plastic they make with an equivalent amount of plastic waste collected and taken out of the environment elsewhere — often in poor nations lacking waste management programs. Several organizations now offer credits and will certify plastic collection and reuse.

by Charles Pekow
https://news.mongabay.com/2023/10/as-companies-buy-plastic-credits-are-they-reducing-waste-or-greenwashing/

#News #Conservation #Environment #Pollution #Plastic #PlasticIndustry

Think that your #plastic is being recycled? Think again.

Plastic is cheap to make and shockingly profitable. It’s everywhere. And we’re all paying the price.

By Douglas Main
October 12, 2023

"#PlasticPollution—'a scourge on a planetary scale,' as French president Emmanuel Macron has put it—most affects those least able to deal with its consequences. Noting that the #PlasticIndustry generates upward of $700 billion a year in revenues, the UN Environment Programme (#UNEP) also concluded that the industry 'inflicts a heavy burden on #HumanHealth and #EnvironmentalDegradation, with the poorest in society facing the highest impacts whilst contributing the least to plastic over-consumption and waste.'

"This is true at every stage of plastic’s life cycle. #Manufacturing plants are concentrated in communities of color—such as in #Louisiana, in an area along the #MississippiRiver often called '#CancerAlley,' which is home to nearly 150 #OilRefineries, plastics plants, and #chemical facilities. Such plants emit #AirPollution that raises risks of cancer and other diseases. A panel of UN human rights experts said the situation amounts to a 'form of environmental racism [that] poses serious and disproportionate threats to the ... human rights of its largely #AfricanAmerican residents.'

"This pollution also disproportionately harms poor and developing countries that produce little or no plastic, such as those in #Africa, the #Pacific, and elsewhere."

#PlasticPollution #BigOil #SingleUsePlastic #EnvironmentalRacism