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RE: Ship it back and break free from plastics

in #cleanplanet โ€ข 7 years ago (edited)

Nope @macoolette ...

"Responsibilities do not go away, no matter how long you took a vacation. ๐Ÿ˜ƒ"

... "you can run, but you can't hide", so ... Had to come back and "face the music" ... ๐Ÿ˜

These are old sayings here in America. I wonder sometimes the source and context of these old sayings ... ๐Ÿ˜‰

Ultimately the responsibility for the cost comes back to "we the people" ... All of the infrastructure to truly recycle on the scale needed is massive. And thus far beyond the reach of any one company ...

So ... Faced with these costs, do "we the people" support the organizations which make a valiant effort to be good stewards, but still pass these costs along to us consumers? Or do "we the people" buy whatever is cheapest product (which of course doesn't have any of these good steward costs embedded ...)?

I can't speak for the Phillipines, but here in America, the choice is far more often the latter ... Which brings us smack up against having freedom vs. compulsory compliance imposed on "we the people" ... ๐Ÿค”

Did somebody say "complicated?" ๐Ÿ˜‰ Yep! ๐Ÿ˜

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P.S. So we can still be friends ... ๐Ÿ˜‰

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Wow! You really took photos of your garbage bins. Very good! You're a model citizen. ๐Ÿ˜Š

I think it is the same here in our country wherein people go for what is cost-friendly to them. But if all organizations embed in their system the cost to sustain the products including the packaging until the end of its life cycle, I think people will have no choice than to follow. On a larger scale, that would mean too high inflation which I wonder if it is at all possible for countries to keep up without going on bankruptcy. Indeed, it is complicated. ๐Ÿ˜„

Well I don't know about being a "model citizen" @macoolette, but I will take your response as an indication we can still be friends. ๐Ÿ˜‰

I have long been and will always be an advocate for good stewardship of the earth's resources (voluntarily executed and rewarded by a system of free enterprise) ...

But ... I have also always been and will remain an unrelenting adversary of any "one world" arguments - the ultimate in the centralization of power ...

Thanks again for your efforts to write about this @macoolette. Hopefully, "we the people" will continue to make progress in solving this global dilemma.

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Hopefully, "we the people" will continue to make progress in solving this global dilemma.

Yap. Efforts that seem to be so small because it is just by individuals can be collectively huge.