Post #3801828
2026-07-06 22:29 UTC
The problem isnt plastic, the problem is a disposable society.
as long as we have a disposable society, we’re gonna generate monstrous piles of of waste. And its gonna be the same for whatever replaces plastic, and then we’ll be having these conversations about that material.
Replies (3)
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@quick_snail@feddit.nl 2026-07-07 03:31
The problem is plastic.
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@Grass@sh.itjust.works 2026-07-07 03:55
That problem is actually just billionaires even existing but blamed on the little guy
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@AHemlocksLie@lemmy.zip 2026-07-07 07:09
No, the problem is definitely that we produce anything at all out of plastic that doesn’t strictly require it for whatever reason. Some medical applications are probably good examples. Anything that doesn’t strictly need to be plastic just grinds down to microplastics, contributing to their pollution of every last environment we check on earth. Every plastic product produced is one in which a business has forced their externalities onto the rest of society instead of addressing them themselves.