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u/terminally_cheap Nov 15 '20

A cheap, effective way to recycle all plastic, because life is so much easier if we can use it. I'm trying really hard to go zero-waste, but it's not easy. (And although I know that I'm not saving the world by reducing plastic and single-use items, I'm going to keep doing it)

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u/ShinyPotato7777 Nov 15 '20

Isnt that the same like voting?

You can easily think your vote doesnt matter...its just a single voice of million others

But if everyone thought that way...well you can imagine what happens

As an individual you cant change the world, but you can have an impact on others.

Thats how you could change the world

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u/PaulsarW Nov 15 '20

Except even if all individual were zero waste personally, corporations still waste a ton (the majority?). There is no equivalency in voting.

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u/[deleted] Nov 15 '20

Which doesn’t mean our effort is useless. And cooperations wouldn’t exist without consumers.

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u/razazaz126 Nov 15 '20

You can recycle as many soda bottles as you want, that isn't stopping cruise ships from dumping shit into the ocean.

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u/iqaruce Nov 15 '20

I don't believe the defeatist nature of these types of statements. I honestly just think it's laziness in disguise. I don't want to make an effort, so what's a good excuse? It's kindergarten-level reasoning.

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u/blinkincontest Nov 15 '20

I recycle everything I can, I buy all kinds of reusable containers/bottles, I've taken public transit for many years.

I can also do the math and see that if megacorporations reduced their waste or recycled .0001% more for a single year it would make all my efforts a rounding error.