I've worked/been adjacent to manufacturing and seeing every single plastic panel of a budget electronic product coming in its own plastic sleeve with plastic film pre-applied to the outer surface, assembling these things and seeing the mountain of single use plastic films being used is monsterous.

And then you see what happens with returned products at places like amazon and see the whole ass product being crushed by a baler completely unused.

We're a stupid fucking species. We have enough. Its a distribution problem and we're being held captive by 8-10 specific rich assholes.

I wish godzilla was here.

The same ploy has been used for everything environmental and climate change based. Apparently you have a CO2 emission cost, you have a personal plastic and waste cost its all your consuming fault. No one seems to challenge the idea that if we don't "consume" this plastic we die from lack of food since everything comes wrapped. Almost all production of waste products generally is done by companies for products they sell us, they are secondary emissions.

The most common ones where people actually produce the waste themselves are petrol/diesel cars, gas boilers/heating and stoves. But the bulk of production is all the choice of really very profitable businesses and asking them to change over the last 55 years has not worked.

Plastic production has doubled since 2000 and less than 10% gets recycled. The oil industry is actively poisoning the planet for quarterly profits. There is no solution besides ending mass plastic production, but that seems like a nonstarter. Just another neverending global disaster to be conveniently ignored.

Also why we need government regulation of social media, because individuals will never self-regulate properly en masse.

Could also implement deposits on plastic packaging. That clamshell your mouse came in? Charge $1 that is refunded once the package is turned into a recycler. If it works for aluminum cans in many places it can work for plastic. Also why the fuck is the deposit on aluminum not a global thing by now? Aluminum is so easy to recycle now and can be done infinite times.

For real though, why do we use plastic for packaging when aluminum is better? I would completely buy product in an aluminum clamshell.