More Recycling Won't Solve Plastic Pollution
“In fact, the greatest success of Keep America Beautiful has been to shift the onus of environmental responsibility onto the public while simultaneously becoming a trusted name in the environmental movement. This psychological misdirect has built public support for a legal framework that punishes individual litterers with hefty fines or jail time, while imposing almost no responsibility on plastic manufacturers for the numerous environmental, economic and health hazards imposed by their products.”
Just the yesterday I was reading an article in the Washington Post about ideas for reducing use of plastic and tin foil in the kitchen. This is a thing I think about a lot, ways to reduce our waste and make sure we're bringing less into the house, but also recycling what we can. And this article points out something I've thought about and gotten frustrated with a lot. It's hard to not accumulate waste because so much of our packaging and how we sell things is in plastic. I try hard, but it is way harder than it should be and I'm glad to see an article that points that out.