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Once it's
created, plastic never leaves the Earth, breaking down further
and further but always existing. It even finds its way into
our food and water — and then lodges inside our bodies. One
place it doesn't often go: recycling centers. Even when
plastic does go through the expensive, energy-intensive
process of transforming it from one petroleum-based product
into another, it's often on the taxpayers' dime... even though corporations created all this nasty
non-biodegradable waste in the first
place.
We didn't end up here by
accident. Huge conglomerates have spent generations
shrouding all of their products in
plastic, whether it was necessary or not.
Corporations have also spent generations telling us
that it's our fault. If only we, each individual
single consumer, would have recycled things the right way, the
Earth would be clean and non-polluted. What an epic way to
pass the buck and avoid accountability for their own
mess.
Now, nine states across the U.S.
are trying to pass bills known as "extended producer
responsibility" laws. This type of legislation really just
means: pushing the responsibility for the plastic waste that
corporations create back onto the corporations that are truly
responsible, and making them pay for the clean-up. If they're
going to make these wasteful choices, they need to bear that
burden. Once forced to take care of the waste,
companies will start to rethink how heavily they rely on
plastic in the first place. Sign the petition to demand that U.S. state
governments force plastic-producing corporations to pay for
the costs they've inflicted on our
environment!
Thank you,
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Miranda
The Care2 Petitions Team
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P.S.
Corporations are obsessed with churning out plastic, but want
us to believe that we're each individually to blame. Tell U.S. states to pass "extended producer
responsibility" laws now! |
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