That puts recycling on the "I'm helping to spread awareness by temporarily adding a note to my Twitter bio" tier of action. It's better than nothing, but it's only a little better.
replyDoing a little better than nothing becomes a big deal when everyone is doing it.
replyDoes it really? Or does it become a panacea to make people feel like they’ve done something when they haven’t?
replyPerhaps if these non-solutions didn’t exist to appease our fears then there would be more pressure for real solutions.
We know there is a real problem, awareness is not the issue. (I've been aware of it since the mid 90's) It is ignored by large industries and governments. The incessant pounding of the useless drum of individual action continues to go absolutely nowhere. We need government and industry to take action not individuals. I will no longer placate this idea that individual action is at all useful.
replyWhile true we did that years ago and the other side is simply ignoring it.
replyWorse, the people we sold the idea too are stuck on it: they're convinced the solution must and totally be the performance, not the result.