A while back, I became aware that only the Bible is truth; and at best, I might encounter partial truth elsewhere. The topic today is not a spiritual one, but it near to us all and typifies the kind of greed motivated deceit we are often subjected to, and sometimes discover.
The recycling of single-use plastic containers.
The recycling center near my home recently quit accepting plastic and glass. I discovered this when I arrived there with an SUV filled with recyclables. Since then, I have been pondering the matter and have begun to believe that corporations must have launched a propaganda campaign about recycling to alleviate our guilt about buying their products in single-use “recyclable” packaging. That is, if we knew that the earth was rapidly being polluted by these single-use containers, that aren’t really recyclable, we might seek and/or demand truly recyclable or disposable packaging.
While pondering this recycling problem, I have learned that plastic recycling from our country was being sent to foreign countries to be disposed of and not really being “recycled” such that it could be used again; which is what recycling centers claimed to be able to do when they were introduced into the rural in which I reside.
The videos below, show how the plastic waste of developed nations is being “processed” in the nations that import it from our supposed recycle agencies.
The following video addresses plastics in the ocean that pollute beaches; one clean-up beach is highlighted:
In conclusion, rather than launching clean-up campaigns, would it not be better to demand that corporations change their packaging; and to boycott those who continue to exhibit indifference about our world?
I have long been troubled by the amount of plastic water bottles I use. I am one person in this world of 7.7 billion people.
There seems to be no real solution for dealing with single-use plastic bottles, except to change to paper? And, where possible, revert to returnable bottles.
I still haven’t determined how to quit purchasing single-use plastics. But the anger I have about being deceived by the recycling scam and greedy corporations; and the guilt I have about polluting the world is moving me to make some changes even if they are inconvenient.