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Please remember that the corporations are polluting to provide services to the populace at large. You might as well accuse your pizza delivery driver for polluting after he gives you your order.
I mean, in a city it shows up on a bike or scooter. I think Amazon is a better example. They provide a great service that is nothing but fast delivery and wasteful packing because that's what we want. My answer is that it should be regulated and taxed to show the real cost this convenience has on the world. Another instance is single use utensils. They should not be so cheap to produce that they are being practically thrown away with takeout. Major polluting items need to be artificially made more expensive so that culturally it makes sense to carry our own for or chopsticks with us. That's what regulation is for, creating parameters that companies need to work within, because their motivations are to give us what we want as cheaply as possible to gain market share
Let's start on pushing for thermally neutral building materials and reducing food waste. If buildings weren't concrete heat sinks it wouldn't take so much energy to keep them cool and food waste is a large contributor to pollution and spreads disease.
Thing is, it's not like consumers choose to use plastic packaging. It's not like we choose to release forever chemicals into the water supply instead of dealing with them responsibly.
Let the person who has never improperly disposed of their batteries throw the first stone.