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Originally Posted by Azure
I'm all for paper based packaging.
But I'm also not naive enough to believe that me recycling plastic products means that it is actually being recycled.
Or that 1st world countries aren't just sending their waste to 3rd world countries.
I won't say that there aren't people that don't truly care about the environment and try to make good choices (buy local produce as an example), but nobody can deny that 1st world countries are very much just taking advantage of 3rd world countries in order to give the appearance of being green.
The entire movement might go down as one of the greatest grifts of the modern century.
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100% it has been a huge grift, brought to us by the very same people who sold us the plastic:
https://time.com/6173859/plastic-rec...ig-oil-damage/
and most likely the same people funding the anti-anti-plastic people (it feels wrong to call those people pro-plastic)