Recycling Would Save the World

me when I thought recycling would save the world me after I found out that plastic corporations invented plastic recycling to put the responsibility onto the consumer even though they knew plastic recycling was both chemically and financially not feasible, and now I have plastic in my brain, lungs and testicles

A split-panel meme contrasts a cheerful man in bright blue clothing by the waterfront with a grim, bearded lighthouse keeper in black-and-white. The joke is that learning how plastic companies shifted responsibility for an impractical recycling system onto consumers turns naive environmental optimism into bleak existential despair. It is sent as a reaction to discovering corporate greenwashing and the consequences of plastic pollution. EN: A split-panel meme contrasts a cheerful man in bright blue clothing by the waterfront with a grim, bearded lighthouse keeper in black-and-white. The joke is that learning how plastic companies shifted responsibility for an impractical recycling system onto consumers turns naive environmental optimism into bleak existential despair. It is sent as a reaction to discovering corporate greenwashing and the consequences of plastic pollution.

• @deenya_md / 13773 2025-02-08