It’s a good thing many Americans now have more willingness or emotional drive to care more about the environment, but the US really needs to rip the band-aid of

It’s a good thing many Americans now have more willingness or emotional drive to care more about the environment, but the US really needs to rip the band-aid off on the recycling falsehoods passed down from the 1980s. It creates a false image that “it’s ok to consume as much as you want, as long as you recycle!” - as if all those Coke and Deer Park bottles go straight from the blue bin right back to the beverage factory, meanwhile they get packed on a giant polluting ship and sent halfway around the world to a poor country then get dumped into the ocean. Out of sight, out of mind. Unfortunately in this case - what goes around, comes around. We should use our collective ecological motivation to create systems that actually address the biggest polluters, which means not just letting them pass the issue on or give a shrug like there’s nothing they can do.