to be concerned over the lack of fcuks people have over the planet and cliate change etc

[Harford]

I have lived in 3 different house shares in the past year in apartment complexes, not 1 bit of recycling is going on. I have raised it to the co-tenants and nobody seems bothered.
It is making me anxious over all the waist and I just think why aren't there more recycling bins etc?

I care and do my bit.

When you see rich men jetting into space and rich Harry types jetting around telling us we are the bad people, what's the point in us even trying, many of these lecturing types have double standards one rule for them another for us, they will carry on finger pointing at us when they do as they please?

I will carry on as I have always been. It's a wate of time and energy really as those who cause the most problems are in huge houses with air conditioning, staff, etc, they are boating, driving and flying around with their backup crew at their leisure because they don't want to change their lifestyle.

Everybody on my street has recycling bins, sorted to plastics, paper etc. They reject the whole box if you put e.g. soft plastics (not recycleable) in the plastic bin. What happens after that, I don't know, as I've seen the footage of waste meant for recycling sent to landfills.

Climate emergency is not going to be resolved easily. People think it's purely a consumerism thing, it's a large population of 9bn humans and economic growth that we don't want to kill off to save the planet.

I genuinely believe the only way is for all governments to put in regulations and carbon tax, fund clean energy, meddle with every industry's supply chain. There is a conflict with profit making, no matter what the lovely sustainability reports every company produces these days say. No amount of consumer activism is going to remove material greenhouse gases, but legal action and concerted government policy can.

@Harford

it's the government's lack of direction though. I see it as their responsibility to enforce it and so recycling should be mandatory instead of skips out the back of many flat complexes with no recycling insight.

Doesn't the government have enough control over our lives? Why oh why do people keep on insisting it's up to a bunch of parasitic strangers to control our every move? Is that what you want? Some clipboard council snout, poking round your bins making sure you've recycled, or the police showing up because you mixed up cardboard with plastic? The more power government has, the less you do, and the less people take initiative, and the less they care. If you care about it so much, then you do something about it. You've more chance of getting people onside and helping you in your cause, having more rules shoved down people's throats just pisses them off.

Build communities - that's when change happens.

For the record I do recycle, although I tend to reuse what I can first, and recyle what I can't. The mushroom trays make great seedling trays