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[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

"cCompanies have customers, and therefore no responsibility to the environment!"

Fuck off with this shit.

The grocery store I work in tosses thousands of pounds of plastic per day directly into the landfill. But you think they can't recycle because they have customers?

Just because there's demand for their product doesn't mean they shouldn't be doing a whole fuck of a lot more than they are.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Completely agree, but the argument that companies are responsible makes people feel like they are powerless to do anything, or worse, that they can just keep going as-is with no modification to their lifestyle. I 100% think the companies should be held accountable and in my ideal situation should be taxed to hell to pay for the transition to renewables.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

The thing that people should do is point their fingers at companies and demand regulation. It would be so much more effective than banning drinking straws.