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I don’t see it as a way to justify inaction. I see it as a way to be forgiving of myself if I mess up sometimes.

Example: in the worst of my grief, I threw away some recyclables because I just couldn’t wash them out properly. It took everything just to eat.

I didn’t pile guilt on myself over it. I recycle 99% of the time, I never litter. I have to check my pockets for random trash before doing laundry.

Utility companies, corporations, and rich people are not cleaning up after themselves and their inaction almost negates everything me and everyone I personally know can possibly do.

Knowing they are dumping faster than I can shovel doesn’t mean I stop shoveling. I still want and actively work to leave this place better than I found it.

Those 91 jets just mean I don’t feel overwhelming guilt when I fail. I just try to do better next time.

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jaybone@lemmy.zip ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
Do you think they feel “overwhelming guilt” about those jets?

The idea is to blame you for all the plastic shit they have forced you to buy because you need to eat and wipe your ass and clean your floor.

They don’t care what bin you put that shit in. It all goes to the same place anyway since they have admitted recycling is a scam and has been for the last 40 years.

It’s like conserving water. In the 80s, when there were “droughts” in California, they told people not to flush their toilets. 98% of water is used by commercial agriculture. THEY should be more efficient about their water use. We are subsidizing them. And they export a ton of this shit. Like almonds. Which take a ton of aster to grow. (Spoiler alert on where they export that to…)

You ever see those public trash cans with like different holes for landfill and recycle, and then see underneath that it all goes into the same bag?

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Passerby6497@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

Utility companies, corporations, and rich people are not cleaning up after themselves and their inaction ~~almost~~ negates everything me and everyone I personally know can possibly do.

There’s no almost about it. On an individual level, anything you and I do to recycle is dwarfed by the callous usage of resources by corporations.

You and I are out here doing our best to recycle the cast majority of our plastic waste when one of the local factories throws away more than a month’s worth of your plastic refuse every shift when they throw away the plastic wrapping on just supply pallets. They may recycle the cardboard, but so much pallet shrink wrap would get thrown away at receiving and a shit ton more applied at shipping.

I fucking hated working for one of the local places and just watched all the plastic waste build up every shift.

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