I’m not really losing my mind. But seeing so much plastic and not being able to talk about it is weighing heavily on me.
Plastic is everywhere. Literally everything comes packaged in plastic. Most of the stuff is made from plastic. It’s not gonna biodegrade. Can’t incinerate it either. It’s sent to landfills. It chokes birds, cows and seahorses to death. There are literal islands of plastic trash in the ocean. It’s even inside us as micro (soon to be macro) plastics.
Meanwhile corporations have gaslit the world about the wonders of recycling. Plastic is very dear to them because it is even cheaper than it is convenient. Only 30% of the plastic produced in India is ever recycled.
I feel like in the future plastic is gonna have to be tossed into the space or some shit like that.
The worst thing about plastic pollution is bottled water. There’s literally 0 reason to have bottled water sold at such a high frequency. Water in most places around the world is perfectly drinkable. But because of companies like Evian and their shitty propaganda, billions of plastic water bottles are sold every day, only to be thrown away mere hours later.
It’s even worse that in a lot of places bottled water is the ONLY option you get.
If we banned bottled water, we could probably cut down plastic pollution by something like 10-20%
I have been wanting to check up what tap water is like where I live. All middle class and upper homes have RO water purification systems at home. I am not sure if this because of necessity or propaganda.