I've worked at a couple huge, national corporations and noticed a continuing, repeated thread running through them.
Corporations and all the employees that work for them throw away and waste a great deal of plastics and papers and cardboard and aluminum cans and glass.
Corporations, with all those people, create and then throw away all these materials.
And they do it daily. Weekly. Month after month. Year after year.
And they have no desire nor motivation to reduce the amount of waste and wastes and what ends up as pollution, landfill. It's what gets us these results:
Plastic Garbage Patch Bigger
Than Mexico Found in Pacific
'Plastic in All Sizes' Found Everywhere
in Once Pristine European Arctic
Nasa animation shows how ‘garbage islands’ have taken over the seas in the last 35 years
Corporations are all about profit and profits, of course. Because of that, they're also about cutting costs. They're about cutting costs at all costs. Recycling requires commitment. It requires spending. Those are costs they don't want to assume or commit to.
So let's face it. The only way we, as a nation and planet, can get them to start recycling and at least reduce, if not end polluting will be for government and governments, state by state and nation by nation, to require them to do so, to start and keep recycling.
Think about the waste.
Think about how much paper and plastic alone each McDonald's restaurant throws out. Daily. Then think of the entire company.
AT&T GE Alcoa Dupont Bayer
The list goes on. Company after company. All over the nation, continent and world.
We must do this. We must require this. We have to call them out on this. They won't do it on their own.
An upside to all this, besides that we'll clean up our planet is that it will also create jobs. Those are two huge wins for humanity and the planet.
The thing is, it must come from us, from the people.
Links:
Just 100 companies responsible for 71%
of global emissions, study
Just 90 companies caused two-thirds
of man-made global warming
Just 90 companies are to blame for most climate change
The Toxic 100: Top Corporate Air Polluters
in the United States
The Oceans Are Drowning In Plastic --
And No One's Paying Attention
And it's not just the oceans, of course.
