@BossgirlMillie Having a recycling facility or a waste management infrastructure is very costly and for some places, there isn't a budget to have this type of system. In order to prevent the trash from ending up in the ocean, we must stop it at the source which is through consumption.

4ocean @BossgirlMillie isn't the source actually manufacturing

Louis Keene @BossgirlMillie Manufacturers need to be held accountable for their plastic, but as consumers, we have a great influence on what they produce. We have the power to vote with our dollar for sustainable products by refusing to use single-use plastic and by choosing to support responsible brands.

4ocean Louis Keene @BossgirlMillie I think shifting the responsibility for plastic pollution (and by extension the climate crisis) from industry to individual is duplicitous.

4ocean Louis Keene @BossgirlMillie I agree that individual actions like refusing single-use plastic and supporting sustainable brands are undeniable in combating the climate crisis; this is however reserved for those with the privilege/ access to do so.

4ocean Louis Keene @BossgirlMillie The climate crisis disproportionately affects poor and low-income communities/ countries around the world and these are the places where saying “make better environmental choices” just won’t work.

4ocean Louis Keene @BossgirlMillie I am seeing this trend, well IMO an attempt at a conditioning, in placing the blame of the climate crisis solely in the laps of individuals instead of on the large industries, cooperations, players etc. that put us here in the first place!

4ocean Louis Keene @BossgirlMillie This is an over-simplification of the issue and by no means an exhaustive discourse via Twitter, but it really bugs me that we aren’t putting more pressure on the bodies who have the *actual* ability to contribute to positive, tangible change.

Trinidad Jade 4ocean @BossgirlMillie I think generally the consensus on this website is too far in the other direction - that 100 corporations do 80% of the polluting, which isn't really true. Individual choices do count. It's not all about buying non plastic.

Louis Keene 4ocean @BossgirlMillie I don’t disagree, but I think my take is also clearly laid out above lol