Environment

Shove Your Plastic Water Bottle Up Your Ass

Recycling is a myth

Photo by Nick Fewings on Unsplash

Plastic water bottles are everywhere and I hate them. They’re in the oceans. They wash up on shore. People drop them on hiking trails and they end up thrown away instead of recycled.

If ONLY we recycled every bottle, then this wouldn’t be a problem. Right?!

Wrong.

Recycling is a myth. It’s a way to make us feel good about “saving the Earth,” when instead we’re just greenwashing the problem.

Over 480 billion water bottles are produced every year and less than 9% of those (about 43.2 million) get recycled. Where does the rest go? In landfills or littered around.

What a crock of shit.

We don’t deserve the earth, we really don’t. I wrote a while ago that:

We’re like a bunch of teenagers wrecking our rooms and sleeping in our filth until we wake up one day and realize it’s too late. We missed the bus or the house is burning down and we can’t get out.

There’s so much plastic shit everywhere! My partner and I spent 5 minutes at a local beach and picked up this garbage.