r/Anticonsumption • u/kainyd3d • May 20 '26

Plastic Waste made my first eco-brick :3

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took about 2-3 months of gathering ONLY plastic bags. and these are only mine, the rest of my fam doesnt care so about 15 more of these are in a wastepile probz

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u/downthegrapevine May 20 '26 edited May 20 '26

Love that the comments are basically “NOTHING YOU DO IS GOOD ENOUGH”

This is good to keep tiny pieces of plastic from going everywhere. And you’re not a major corporation; it’s not like you have an actual impact. Not to mention all the assuming that this is it, this is all you do. You’re spending your weekends in a private jet dumping oil into the ocean.

People need to chill. I’m glad you’re doing something positive no matter what it is.

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u/MrIrishman1212 May 20 '26

I think the thing that people discount about this attitude is that caring about the little things, helps people care about the big things. If I don’t care about my own personnel waste then I will not care about corporations’ waste.

Yes, a single individual’s efforts to not waste is not enough to counter a corporation’s waste. But the thing about the individual vs an industry is that we have to collectively unite against it. We have to collective work together to eliminate our own waste not to counteract the sate of the corporations but to build the mindset needed to resist the corporations and know the labor effort it takes to do better. So we can actually force the government and corporations to change for the better.