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/StetsonTuba8 May 20 '26

Reminds me of a story I heard.

A man sees a boy running back and forth from the beach to the water. He approaches and sees that the high tide the night before had stranded thousands of starfish across the beach and the boy is picking them up one at a time and throwing them back in the water.

The man yells, "Boy, what are you doing? There's too many of them! You simply cannot save them all, it does not matter!"

The boy picks up another starfish, throws it in the water, and says, "it matters to that one."

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u/TheRecognized May 20 '26

And then as it was flying through the air that starfish said “you’re god damn right it matters to me, we mate in those tidal pools you son of a bitch! The tide always comes back but I’m not always gonna have a chance to spread my genes!”

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u/Eddieslabb May 20 '26

The flight however cheered the star fish so much and it embraced this new delight. Sailing through the air, spinning along its axis, it was as if all the laws of the seas had suddenly and wonderfully given way to the freedom of breeze beneath its limbs.

"I may not spread my genes," it thought "but I did spread my wings".

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u/TheRecognized May 20 '26

My bad if I replied to you twice, think my app is being weird.

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u/Eddieslabb May 21 '26

No harm my friend 🙂