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Public awareness at the unrecyle-ability of the majority of products should hopefully upstream business packaging change.

• baroffoos 7y ago
  Hopefully. Recycling almost feels like it has been a trick by corporations "Don't worry, you can consume as much as you want and as long as you put it in the recycling bin its all good"
  • lotsofpulp 7y ago
    It was a trick, and by politicians and people themselves, who wanted to be seen as being environmentally conscious. The only solution has always been to reduce consumption, but deep down, everyone wants to consume more and more, while at the same time feel better about and blissfully ignore that they are destroying the environment.
    • 5040 7y ago
      >The only solution has always been to reduce consumption, but deep down, everyone wants to consume more and more, while at the same time feel better about and blissfully ignore that they are destroying the environment. Maybe I'm only thinking of this because I've been reading Tocqueville, but might not religion be the thing to encourage restraint here?
      • lotsofpulp 7y ago
        Maybe Buddhism, other than that I see lots of consumption in other religions.