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consumers are also responsible.

Are consumers really responsible? I often see that same argument from companies, when it comes to loot boxes, gambling, alcohol, porn, etc.

Plastic bottles vs glass bottles. I come from the days when glass bottles were still normal. It started to die out, but you could still buy Coke in glass everywhere, and later you brought those containers back. Now we have plastic pollution and it is up to the consumer to sort, while the manufacturers of those bottles make plenty of extra profit (no re-use necessary, less loss due to damage, less weight, etc.). And those polluting bottles? Well, part recycling to a 3rd party company, and the rest dumped somewhere in Asia, where they get something good out of it and the rest incinerated.

Is it the consumer’s fault? No… Companies use the soft compulsion to use as few glass bottles as possible. People make it difficult enough for you that you prefer to buy the plastic polluting and unhealthy bottles.

What about water? Tap water is healthy, but everyone buys water in polluting bottles, which pollute 100 times more than water from your tap. Because you are constantly bombarded with advertising, “research” about how good bottled water is because “tap water is not healthy” and how certain water brands make you a star, while it IS PVD WATER with a little different taste!

In practice, companies manipulate consumers through advertising and psychology. You didn’t like that song you heard on the radio or you ignored it. But after hearing it a dozen times, you suddenly think it’s a good song and you might buy it.

We from WC duck … I still know that slogan because it is printed in my head with the constant advertising.

In practice, you do not solve the problem by sensitizing consumers, because you are actually throwing the blame on them, when they are actually the victims of deliberate manipulation by companies. Companies will only take environmental steps when it suits them for advertising, profit, etc. But they will prefer to put the costs on the consumer’s neck.

Kind of like in the US where it was in the 60’s where 33% taxes were paid by citizens and 33% by corporations, while now it’s somewhere around 15% for corporations and 50% for citizens.

There’s a reason we have so many multinational corporations with huge profits (and no taxes) and it’s that they throw everything on the citizen.

* Do you want to reduce plastic? You should not “sensitize” consumers to use plastic, separate blah blah blah. No, companies have to sell everything in cardboard. Do those pieces of meat that you buy in the supermarket have to be in such full plastic dishes? No, you can sell it in cardboard with a THIN layer of plastic inside and a thin layer as a viewing window. Voila, I have just reduced your plastic use by 90% without having to lift a finger to the consumers!

Fruit? Sold in cardboard boxes with a thin net made from hemp. Potatoes, ditto, you shouldn’t have nylon nets around them. The world is FULL of places where you can reduce plastic and other oil products by 90% or more, without the consumer noticing.

* Cars? Everyone suddenly has to buy an electric car because it pollutes less. Yes, until one forgets how much upgrading our electrical grid costs in pollution, the extra power production, the batteries, etc.

But no, we have to ban cars from the cities, because that Euro 4 Diesel is a polluter. And that new car that the consumer buys? That thing pollutes 100 times more in current production than what that old diesel pollutes in its last years. What people do with those restrictions is actually encourage pollution, but you don’t see this. A far from my bed show. And car companies that can sell new vehicles is $$$ to them. Won’t surprise you that behind certain bans are often certain companies that you did not realize.

Years ago, the greens in Belgium started to solve pollution with a green pick-up box, where you had to put your batteries etc. Project was a corrupt business where they made massive plastic boxes that (all?) ended up on the dirt.

Yes, it’s another blog post but guys, I’m tired of consumers always being pointed at when consumers are actually victims of manipulation ( advertising! ).

Here’s my proposal: BAN ADVERTISING! You will see the sale of all those new smartphones fall together like a house of cards. People will use their phone longer because they are not constantly made jealous with “brands” and why don’t you have X new phone.

Second proposal: Make sure that packaging can only consist of 98% cardboard! It will be done FAST with plastic, styrofoam etc everywhere!

… But that means having political courage. Aka will never happen…

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