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As easy (and understandable) as it is to complain about paper straws and the like, the truth is that it’s overall a new positive to not create trash that will outlive multiple generations of humans. However, the bad news is that we all have a long way to go.
The “Anticonsumption” online group shows the environmental effects of producing, moving, and buying too much stuff through memes and insightful posts. Hopefully, these images might be some good food for thought, so get comfortable, be sure to upvote the posts that caught your eye and comment your thoughts below.
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Came Across This On Facebook
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My Haven
#3
Exactly
Stephanie A Mutti 1 month ago
I have a 2017 Chevy Volt plug-in hybrid; meaning it has an electric engine and a small gas engine. When I bought it in 2019 it got 60 miles of electric. Now it gets about 30. You can't buy a new PHEV that has more than 35 miles of electric. Electric car batteries are the only technology that gets worse with science. But it sure does encourage buying more cars. Thanks Corporation.
Looking at all the examples here might lead someone to despair, so it’s worth also highlighting that it’s not all doom and gloom. For example, just this week (November of 2024) Australian scientists have developed a method to recycle old textiles into concrete. The fashion industry and fast fashion in particular create mountains of waste, so this is a great step forward.
Remember, many of us purchase cheap clothing that tends to not even last a year, creating monumental water waste for products that end up in landfills at the end of the day. This is a good and sustainable way to turn that junk into a considerably more valuable commodity, construction materials.
#4
"The Heroes We Deserve"
#5
It’s All Of Our Responsibility, As Inhabitants Of Earth, To Reduce The Impact We Make Upon It! If You Love This Earth, And Want To Make It A Better Place, The First Place To Start Is Living And Shopping More Sustainably! Creating Less Waste Is The First Step In Making Our Earth Healthy Again
#6
Local Funeral Home Offers This $85 Cardboard Casket. What A Great Way To Not Waste Money And Resources
Speaking of emissions, researchers from the University of Massachusetts are working on “agrivoltaics,” a method to help farmers utilize even more of their farmland. The crop? Energy, gathered from solar panels placed across the land. Farming does come with its own emissions, but let's face it, we need food, so might as well make it more efficient.
#7
Because Of The Anticonsumption Mindset, I Have So Much More Respect For Someone Driving A Normal-Sized Old Truck Than A Brand New Gigantic One
#8
My Mother's Blender, Still Choochin Just Fine After 4 Decades Of Use, With All The Original Parts
#9
Your Life Has Already Been Designed
You may have noticed that behind most of these developments are researchers and scientists. It’s easy to get lost in the promises of green entrepreneurs, but at the end of the day, it’s research, both privately funded and publicly funded that is going to end up helping our environment.
#10
True True True
#11
Blue Shell The 1%
#12
Made A New Cat Scratch Pad From Trash
#13
Should This Be Implemented Throughout The World?
Adam Belaire 1 month ago
"Should This Be Implemented Throughout The World?" You mean offering paying jobs to homeless people to help them get back on their feet? I realize picking up garbage isn't a dream job for most, but it's a start to get them food, a place to stay and be able to look at other jobs that won't see them as "homeless" but as actual "potential employees"
#14
A Book From The 70s Based On A Computer Model Based On Just A Few Inputs Roughly Predicted The Next 50 Years, We're At The Brink Of Ecological Breakdown, Billions Live In Dire Poverty And The Rich Own More Than Half Of The World's Wealth. If That's Not An Alarming Bell, I Don't Know What Is
Luke Branwen 1 month ago
There will come a point where the impoverished will no longer have money to buy from the rich, and the whole thing will just collapse. I'd hope that the issues will get solved before it comes to that, but looking at the world's current state...
#15
The Recycling Shop Near Me Has Free Used Paints And Chemicals!😊
#16
This Is A Great Incentive To Get More People Recycling And Cleaning Our Earth! However, We Must Keep Working To Limit Our Plastic Production And Live Sustainably!
#17
As Seen Elsewhere
#18
Sushi Place Put My California Rolls In A Tupperware Container I Brought Them!
#19
Yikes
Hammerfairy 1 month ago
Vaping is stupid and this is super stupid. This must be a bad joke or a nightmare.
#20
We Can Do It Again!
#21
♻️a Drain In Karachi, Pakistan. Hard Work Can Go A Long Way In Cleaning This Earth! Use Less Waste And Work On Picking Up Litter During Your Day! Live And Shop Sustainably ♻️
#22
A Whopping 58% Of Food Is Wasted Or Lost In Canada Every Year. The Pandemic Has Put Extra Strain On An Already Inefficient Food System As We Saw Farmers Forced To Dump Milk And Abandon Crops Due To Plummeting Demand
#23
Pretty Much Sums It Up
#24
My Wife With A $4 Toy Basket
#25
Which Would You Rather: Cheap Clothes, Or A Habitable Planet?
Patrick Linnen 1 month ago
We had a couple of decades to fix the crisis in the 70's. (Thanks Reagan /s) A decade or so to mitigate the crisis in the 90's or not hit any tipping points. Now we have a 'decade' to keep the crisis from becoming 'too bad'
Ace 1 month ago
Yeah, I get heavy "we just made up a number" vibes whenever I see anything like this,
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Spidercat 1 month ago
We only have 11 years to solve the climate crisis yet nobody will speak about how overpopulation is the root cause, or find reasonable ways to solve the underlying problem...
CK 1 month ago
A significant amount of population growth occurs in places where women are forcibly married off and impregnated. Actually, it's worse than that: it's usually girls, not women. The solution there is to save those girls from a lifetime of abuse.
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Vermonta 1 month ago
We warned you in the 1970's, but people preferred to get rich. They all thought waterways and the sky would eliminate it.
Vidas Zlioba 1 month ago
In the 1970's, I was warned of the coming ice age.
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Jerusalem Cat Syndrome 3 weeks ago
That depends: does "cheaper" mean "lower quality" clothes that would have to be replaced more often?
Thomas Schwarting 3 weeks ago
Now that trump is the incoming president, he thinks climate change ISN'T real! God help us, he'll help to destroy us!
Vicki Perizzolo 3 weeks ago
Tipping point officially this month...officially hit that 1.5* ..we're stupid
#26
Pulled From A Local Pet Stores Dumpster
#27
This Smoothie Place I Went To Gives You Mason Jars To-Go, And Fills It Each Time You Bring It Back
#28
This Sculpture Represents The Amount Of Plastic Found On Only 2 Miles Of Coastline In The UK. We Can Do Better! Live And Shop Sustainably
#29
The Irony Of These Items Is Too Much
#30
This Mother’s Day Ad I Received In The Mail Made Me Sad
#31
Shows How Outrageous Pricing Has Gotten, But At Least This Is A Small Step Towards Sustainable Consumerism
#32
I Wouldn’t Care If People Vaped If They Weren’t Generating So Much Plastic Waste
#33
Surely They Would
never-wake-up (fae/faer) 1 month ago
"And what good does it do you to own the stars?" "It does me the good of making me rich." "And what good does it do you to be rich?" "It makes it possible for me to buy more stars, if any are discovered." - Antoine de Saint Éxupery, The little prince
#34
Courtesy Of A Canadian Grocery Chain
#35
Neighbors Threw Out Their $5400 Play Set Because It Was “Rotten”. Just Needed Some Paint, Good As New
#36
Prime Day Be Like
#37
From My Days Working In A College Dining Hall
#38
"Work, Consume, Die!"
#39
The Weight Of Different Breeds Of Chicken Over Their Lifespan
Hammerfairy 1 month ago
The natural lifespan of chickens is about 7 years, but some chickens have been known to live up to 15 years. On production farms, chickens are killed when their productivity declines, i.e. at about 1.5 years of age.
#40
Found At The Park And Grabbed Before My Daughter Could. Turns Out It's Disposable. What A Waste Of Material For One Use And Screw People Who Leave These At Parks 🙄
#41
But I’m A Creep 🎶
#42
Now There Are "Disposable" Vapes You Can Play Games On
CK 1 month ago
Aside from being even more wasteful than the already egregious disposable vape, this thing is clearly aimed at children (and others whose brain hasn't developed past a certain point) and is designed to try to make vaping even more addictive. Vaping products should be legally required to be boring and uncool. They're already d***s. We don't need to make them more exciting.
#43
Five Below Propoganda
#44
No Words
DennyS (denzoren) 1 month ago
In some cases wouldn't that trap the ethylene making it go bad faster.
#45
Making It Look Like A Bigger Amount Is More Important Than Using Less Plastic
Comment Deleted 1 month ago
I hate companies that do this. You open it up and it is just dead air under the photo.
#46
We're Doomed
#47
What Was The Point Of The Plastic Bag Ban If They're Simply Going To Rebrand Them?
CK 1 month ago
The good plastic bags are still better than the single use (and the not even an entire single use, break immediately, completely useless) bags that can't be reused. Even if it's technically identical to the disposable bag, if people are actually using it multiple times, it makes a difference.
#48
2 Billion Dollar Home In Mumbai Built On Orphanage Land Worth 10 M, Sold For 2.5m, Overlooking Slums
Bernd Herbert 1 month ago
That's the building of those a******s who recently had the wedding for several hundred million.
#49
On To The Next Fad
Comment Deleted 1 month ago
I would be embarrassed to own one of these now. After watching those videos of people jumping over the counter at Starbucks to steal one and pushing people over to grab one on sale. No thanks. I feel like your life lacks meaning if you need to do this. And for what ? How low is your self esteem that you need to show some random product as a win.
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John Nelson 1 month ago
When I was growing up, jelly came in glass jars with lips sized and threaded to accept canning lids to make them reusable. Soda came in reusable bottles with a nickel deposit. Us kids would get spending money by picking them up along the road to turn in, helping keep the roadside clean. Flour came in printed cloth sacks to be sewn into clothing items or used as kitchen towels. Cereal came in a cardboard box with a heavy wax paper bag inside. There was a distinct lack of plastic packaging. We reused, repaired, and recycled directly. I was actually talking about this with the wife earlier this evening. Our family of 5 back in the day sent less garbage out in a month than a couple today sends out in a week, or even a few days now. And so much of it is plastic packaging.
Chris Sprucefield 3 weeks ago
I can only agree... I myself, often do repairs of almost any kind of electronics or technical parts where i can, and can get hold of spare parts (which is a BIG issue these days). I really hate it how they lock down spare parts by software, even batteries, so they can not be swapped, or stopping cartridges from being re-filled by the chipping etc.
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All profits to charity 1 month ago
How is not being materialistic somehow equate to communism or socialism? I think it’s called being an adult. Deferred gratification. Living within your means. And all the other, boring, hated, moderation ideas of generations past.
RS 1 month ago
Capitalism requires constant growth to perpetuate itself, minus the baked-in economic collapse every decade or so. It needs people to buy random things, otherwise line not go up ):
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BrunoVI 1 month ago
Back in my day, growing up Catholic meant growing up anti-consumption. Comedians make fun of Catholic parents for teaching guilt, but yeah, don't put it on your plate if you aren't going to eat it; question if you really need it before you buy it; and the fashion of jeans hasn't changed that much since your older sibling got them.
Montanavanna 1 month ago
And fashion comes back around. Really wish I still had some of my outfits from the 90s.
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Cathy Carey 3 weeks ago (edited)
We should talk to the Amish, seriously I would go live with them right now if they would take me.
Chris Sprucefield 3 weeks ago
As long as they don't get political and goes overboard on things, but stay pragmatic, realistic and acts where things does not make sense, then fine. The big issue i have with most "movements" these days, is just this - they go overly political and into areas that doesn't concern them and the movement, becoming a "meh" at all they do trying to become everything to everyone, rather than focusing at the problem at hand, and do that one or a couple of things well.
Will Cable 1 month ago
I remember when the local government brought in the recycling bins. First they said it was to reduce the cost of the 'Council tax'. A few years later it was then 'Better for the environment'..so people put the rubbish in the appropriate bin. The council then comes around, collects the bins for recycling and they all go in to the same vehicle. Companies, governments and organisations will say anything to make them seem better than they REALLY are.
Montanavanna 1 month ago
Your local government? Well that socks. As a resident though you have so much power in creating awareness and change. Working locally is rewarding, the results are right there to experience.
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John Nelson 1 month ago
When I was growing up, jelly came in glass jars with lips sized and threaded to accept canning lids to make them reusable. Soda came in reusable bottles with a nickel deposit. Us kids would get spending money by picking them up along the road to turn in, helping keep the roadside clean. Flour came in printed cloth sacks to be sewn into clothing items or used as kitchen towels. Cereal came in a cardboard box with a heavy wax paper bag inside. There was a distinct lack of plastic packaging. We reused, repaired, and recycled directly. I was actually talking about this with the wife earlier this evening. Our family of 5 back in the day sent less garbage out in a month than a couple today sends out in a week, or even a few days now. And so much of it is plastic packaging.
Chris Sprucefield 3 weeks ago
I can only agree... I myself, often do repairs of almost any kind of electronics or technical parts where i can, and can get hold of spare parts (which is a BIG issue these days). I really hate it how they lock down spare parts by software, even batteries, so they can not be swapped, or stopping cartridges from being re-filled by the chipping etc.
Load More Replies... All profits to charity 1 month ago
How is not being materialistic somehow equate to communism or socialism? I think it’s called being an adult. Deferred gratification. Living within your means. And all the other, boring, hated, moderation ideas of generations past.
RS 1 month ago
Capitalism requires constant growth to perpetuate itself, minus the baked-in economic collapse every decade or so. It needs people to buy random things, otherwise line not go up ):
Load More Replies... BrunoVI 1 month ago
Back in my day, growing up Catholic meant growing up anti-consumption. Comedians make fun of Catholic parents for teaching guilt, but yeah, don't put it on your plate if you aren't going to eat it; question if you really need it before you buy it; and the fashion of jeans hasn't changed that much since your older sibling got them.
Montanavanna 1 month ago
And fashion comes back around. Really wish I still had some of my outfits from the 90s.
Load More Replies... Cathy Carey 3 weeks ago (edited)
We should talk to the Amish, seriously I would go live with them right now if they would take me.
Chris Sprucefield 3 weeks ago
As long as they don't get political and goes overboard on things, but stay pragmatic, realistic and acts where things does not make sense, then fine. The big issue i have with most "movements" these days, is just this - they go overly political and into areas that doesn't concern them and the movement, becoming a "meh" at all they do trying to become everything to everyone, rather than focusing at the problem at hand, and do that one or a couple of things well.
Will Cable 1 month ago
I remember when the local government brought in the recycling bins. First they said it was to reduce the cost of the 'Council tax'. A few years later it was then 'Better for the environment'..so people put the rubbish in the appropriate bin. The council then comes around, collects the bins for recycling and they all go in to the same vehicle. Companies, governments and organisations will say anything to make them seem better than they REALLY are.
Montanavanna 1 month ago
Your local government? Well that socks. As a resident though you have so much power in creating awareness and change. Working locally is rewarding, the results are right there to experience.
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