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.