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Karen's avatar

It is so overwhelming as plastic is everywhere. I live in Sweden and a trip to the grocery store and produce areas display all our vegetables wrapped or packaged in plastic. Bags of lettuce, individual peppars wrapped in plastic, etc.. when I have inquired about this at our local market it is to preserve the produce to make it last longer (transport, etc.) and helps with food waste, which agreed, is also a problem. But the entire ”plastic” recycling is a fars, it just has one purpose, to make us feel a little bit better that we, one person, is doing something.

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"Il Caffe del Porto". I dryly note the place to slowly drink coffee in ceramic cups and not styrofoam ones - while sitting in plastic chairs.

As you always say "Changing it is going to be far more difficult because it permeates every aspect of the economy". And as I always ask "What's the plan, Stan?". What are the pieces to your project plan to actually implement them to get to your stated goal? HOW are you going to achieve your vision?

A free hint: don't look to the "Stop Oil Now" (shown above) LARPers with their "direct action" antics. If you think they are actually changing the hearts and minds of the non-aligned, think twice as from what *I* am seeing, that particular PR stunt is backfiring badly. They aren't persuading people, they are infuriating them instead.

But it is rather amusing to watch videos of those SON-ers get thrown to the curb after blocking the streets in no gentle fashion by those they have angered greatly to get them out of their way. Have you watched the videos of the nitwits clamoring on top of the subway/trains and making people late for work? They seemed to be very surprised at the reception they got - all those hands laid upon them in "assisting" them off the tops of said carriages.

And FAFO runs supreme when those that have superglued their hands to the asphalt get their hands ripped off that contact point ("OUCH" doesn't begin to tell the tale).

With all that, I agree that recyling is a bust and my hamlet might as well burn 500,000 $1 bills every year they keep trying in trying to virtue-signal everyone else to join in on this loser venture. And yes, I was poking a bit of fun at those SON-ers at their expense.

But what is your realistic process to solve your self-stated problem? How WILL you implement it?

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