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Recycling is a toxic lie.

Big brands and petrochemical corporations keep selling the public a convenient and comforting story to hide the hard truth: they simply have to STOP PRODUCING SO MUCH PLASTIC.

#PlasticsTreaty #plasticpollution
#recycling

Two panel meme comparing two photos of actor Willem Dafoe. Left panel: Willem Dafoe by a harbour in Wes Anderson’s The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou, smiling, with the caption “me when I thought recycling would save the world.” Right panel: a black and white image of Dafoe in Robert Eggers’ The Lighthouse, dressed as a grizzled lighthouse keeper, looking tired and serious, with the caption “me after I found out that plastic corporations invented plastic recycling to put the responsibility onto the consumer even though they knew plastic recycling was not chemically or financially feasible, and now I have plastic in my brain, lungs and testicles.”
#recycling #plasticpollution #plasticstreaty

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I sometimes despair about over use of plastic, am fanatical about recycling, and shop in as plastic free a way as possible. This article reminds me to keep pestering the politicians and manufacturers. Sainsburys beware, another email is coming your way ...

#ChrisPackham #DavidAttenborough #PlasticPollution #Sainsburys #BBCRadio4Today #GreenParty


Reuse and return schemes could help eliminate plastic pollution in 15 years, says report

Pew Charitable Trusts finds plastic pollution will more than double globally by 2040 unless action taken
Sandra Laville (The Guardian)
#plasticpollution #GreenParty #chrispackham #davidattenborough #sainsburys #bbcradio4today

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