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Re:Bugs are evolving to eat plastic by trulyme on Monday December 20, 2021 @12:59PM (#29627731)
"and continue to provide what we want", you mean? It's not the companies that are the (sole) problem.
Re:Bugs are evolving to eat plastic by soperj on Monday December 20, 2021 @02:06PM (#29628700)
I don't know. For a while the major toothpaste companies were putting plastic beads in toothpaste as grit. I would say that's a company issue.
Re:Bugs are evolving to eat plastic by heurisko on Monday December 20, 2021 @03:13PM (#29629657)
It's the 21st century version of lead in makeup.

I'm certain in 100-150 years it will be viewed in the same way.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victorian-era_cosmetics

Re:Bugs are evolving to eat plastic by hackarimoo on Thursday December 30, 2021 @09:00AM (#29736716)
The problem is the system. You can expect one or two persons to act rational, but at the scale of 100s, 1000s, millions, it's just crowd dynamics following statistical processes, just as the market itself is.

If we want anything to change, we need systemic changes to what behavior is incentivized by the world we live in - and I can not think of anything that would do the job other than abolishing or at least heavily restraining capitalism.