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15 Photos That Prove Humans Are Addicted to Plastic

If one thing is for certain in this world, it’s that humans are pretty bad at mitigating long term detrimental effects in exchange for short term benefit…

Also, we don’t take good care of our planet. We’re getting better, but we still have a LOOOOOONG way to go.

We careless and wasteful, especially when it comes to harmful products. Plastic is King and we treat it as such. For now, at least.

Let’s take a look at 15 photos that prove we are totally, hopelessly addicted to plastic.

1. Seems a bit wasteful.

I’ll see your peeled oranges in plastic containers and do you one better. from mildlyinfuriating

2. Wow. Not cool.

If theres one thing the world needs its more disposable plastic packaging from mildlyinfuriating

3. Individually wrapped bananas.

This banana is in a wrapper… from mildlyinfuriating

4. Three layers of protection.

The three layers of plastic protection for these oranges. How is this even allowed? from mildlyinfuriating

5. Not necessary.

This store individually wraps eggplants in plastic from mildlyinfuriating

6. What about the natural packaging?

If only this mango had some sort of natural packaging… from mildlyinfuriating

7. Such a huge waste.

This useless packaging / waste of plastic from mildlyinfuriating

8. Looks fancy, but is really dumb.

Unncessary plastic. Again. from mildlyinfuriating

9. That is absolutely ridiculous.

This is getting ridiculous. from mildlyinfuriating

10. All cans need to be wrapped!

The unnecessary plastic wrapping on this single tin of tuna fish from mildlyinfuriating

11. That is absurd.

These vitamin gummies come in a jar, individually wrapped from mildlyinfuriating

12. I’m sorry, what?!

your coke needs that plastic from mildlyinfuriating

13. Just let them be free.

We have enough plastic waste already from mildlyinfuriating

14. Ugh. Here we go again.

These potatoes individually wrapped in plastic from mildlyinfuriating

15. Last one is kind of insane.

Individually wrapped jelly beans from mildlyinfuriating

Those pics are kind of infuriating, aren’t they?

Let’s all pitch in to do our parts and treat Mother Earth a little bit better, okay?

Thank you!

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15 Times People Did Their Part to Help out the Environment

These gestures might be small, but small things add up in the end. And we all need to do our part to help out the environment cause it is not doing great, folks.

Whether it’s recycling, using less water, cutting down on electricity, or any number of things, DO YOUR PART.

These people sure did, and the ideas are wonderful.

Take a look.

1. A great idea.

The Cafe at my closest beach gives free drinks to people who collect a bucket of litter from the beach from mildlyinteresting

2. That is very impressive.

Turns out my pencil is made of recycled newspaper! from mildlyinteresting

3. Good beer, too!

Carlsberg using glue to make six packs instead of plastic. from mildlyinteresting

4. Plant it when you’re done with it.

Got an event bracelet that can be planted from mildlyinteresting

5. Get rid of those pesky cups.

An ice cream cup made of banana leaves from mildlyinteresting

6. Bake some bread!

My grocery store started selling overripe bananas for cheap with a recipe for banana bread on the bag from mildlyinteresting

7. Keep it going.

You can charge this battery with a micro USB from mildlyinteresting

8. Eliminates so many bottles.

Refill Station at Simon Fraser University, Canada. from ZeroWaste

9. Not plastic, but plant starch.

This cup is made from plant starch, not plastic from mildlyinteresting

10. Plant your pencil.

My pencil has seeds on the tip, so when it’s too small to use it you can plant it and a tree will grow out of it from mildlyinteresting

11. Reducing more waste is crucial.

This super market had tiny paper bags instead of plastic containers to reduce waste from mildlyinteresting

12. Much better than discarding it.

Every day after closing, this local bakery leaves out a bag of their unsold pastries that people can take from freely instead of throwing them away and make unnecessary waste from mildlyinteresting

13. These look great!

The bowling alley in my neighbourhood tore up old lanes and used them to renovate the washrooms. from pics

14. Get rid of those butts.

I bought a pack of cigarettes and they came with a postage paid recycling pouch. from mildlyinteresting

15. This is awesome!

I don’t know about you, but I find all of those examples very inspiring.

What are you doing to help out the environment? Share your ideas in the comments!

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