There’s enough plastic in the world to outweigh the mass of all Earth’s mammals. Ain’t that something? Though the fossil fuel companies that produce all this plastic (and simultaneously pollute nearby neighborhoods) are at fault, we should also take a look in the mirror. How much plastic do you consume? Every dollar we spend is a vote, so every time we buy plastic, we’re telling those companies to keep on producing it.

“A lot of our problems with overconsumption and, as a result, wastefulness stem from our rushed mentality; from this notion that we need to keep buying in order to remain relevant. In reality, we need to slow down the rate with which we produce and buy food, garments, and other goods.”

-Anna Sacks

“Our hyper-consumptive lifestyles that drive climate change come at the expense of people of color around the world, Indigenous communities around the world, in terms of their oppression, their dispossession, their lands, their resources, their poverty.”

-Farhana Sultana

Capitalism and consumerism encourages production (= waste).