this is a false dichotomy, of course many problems have to be fixed on the supply side, but a lot have to also be fixed on the consumer side, for example animal product consumption: no matter how you restructure corporations, earth simply doesn’t have enough resources in order sustain an omnivore diet for more than a few hundred million people
the 100 - 70 gotcha points out a valid problem, while also for some reason disregarding the other side of that problem 🤷♀️
Consumers wouldn’t be using single use plastics if corporations didn’t push it on everyone.
How about stuff like milk cartons that added a plastic cap to the cardboard? It always worked fine opening the cardboard top and I would always use it up long before it spoiled. The plastic added nothing to the shelf life and just created more waste. Now every carton like that has a plastic cap.
i agree, you listed problems that should be fixed on the supply side, this doesn’t mean there aren’t problems that should be fixed on the consumer side 🤷♀️
single use plastics isn’t a consumer responsibility, i’m simply pointing out that there exist things that are indeed a responsibility of consumers to fix
this is a false dichotomy, of course many problems have to be fixed on the supply side, but a lot have to also be fixed on the consumer side, for example animal product consumption: no matter how you restructure corporations, earth simply doesn’t have enough resources in order sustain an omnivore diet for more than a few hundred million people
the 100 - 70 gotcha points out a valid problem, while also for some reason disregarding the other side of that problem 🤷♀️
Consumers wouldn’t be using single use plastics if corporations didn’t push it on everyone.
How about stuff like milk cartons that added a plastic cap to the cardboard? It always worked fine opening the cardboard top and I would always use it up long before it spoiled. The plastic added nothing to the shelf life and just created more waste. Now every carton like that has a plastic cap.
i agree, you listed problems that should be fixed on the supply side, this doesn’t mean there aren’t problems that should be fixed on the consumer side 🤷♀️
Oh yeah because consumers can economically recycle plastics, right.
consumers can’t recycle plastics, nobody can, there are problems that cannot be fixed on the supply side, and single use plastics isn’t one of them
So how is it the consumers responsibility?
single use plastics isn’t a consumer responsibility, i’m simply pointing out that there exist things that are indeed a responsibility of consumers to fix
Like what?
like not eating animal products 🤷♀️