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Originally Posted by Ozy_Flame
Explain recycling then.
Why do people recycle?
Why do people put organics in the green bins?
If I'm not caring about doing the right thing environmentally, should I just shovel everything into the garbage bin?
When I'm at the mall, why even bother using the waste/plastic/bottles disposal units?
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If you look at the malls they have added garbage sorters to ensure waste is sorted properly. They have added garbage sorters because the city will fine them if they don’t have proper waste diversion.
Recycling is a good example of how the brainwashing by oil companies and huge dollars were spent to influence opinions at the societal level which creates social pressure and societal expectations to recycle. We are still terrible at it. People don’t choose to recycle for good, they choose to recycle because they feel shame if they don’t. And when people aren’t watched they are terrible at it. Also recycling allows for guilt free consumption.
Also compare recycling rates of deposit bearing glass, meta and plastic to non deposit bearing glass metal and plastic and you can see recycling not being driven by altruism.
Why doesn’t reduce or reuse carry the same level of societal pressure that recycling does. Why are things continually packaged terribly. A system was created to make plastics in particular look better. It was named recycling, it was very effective.
So solutions to global warming need to come from widespread propaganda programs and cost signals not from individuals choosing to do better and for Propagada to work the cost to change must be minimal and not involve any real sacrifice on the user. Otherwise sacrifice needs to be legislated.