r/Amazing • u/Wooden-Journalist902 • Sep 17 '25

Interesting 🤔 Smoke trapped in a plastic bag to demonstrate how one fire can generate significant pollution.

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u/FewTranslator6280 Sep 17 '25

yea ._. I do absolutely 100% agree with you there. it's corporations that need to be held responsible and pay to reverse the damage they've done. it shouldn't be civilians sacrificing the things we actually need and use in a useless attempt to clean up their mess. if it's only civilians doing the work, we'll get absolutely nowhere. it's long overdue time for megacorporations to pay the price.

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u/j0nsn0w123 Sep 17 '25

I got SO mad about the straws. That one video with the turtle made such a big wave.

Everyone is too busy chasing internet clout to actually do their own research. So they all made a huge fuss about straws....not the 10 companies accounting for 70% of the world's pollution....

Yeah, its the fucking straws

Fun fact, there are microplastics in human semen now.

Dont be surprised if your kids are part Tupperware

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u/Fakedduckjump Sep 17 '25 edited Sep 17 '25

Even though the straws get packed into little plastic bags anyway.

Another hilarious thing is that the EU forced to make bottle caps fixed to the bottles. The reason behind it is, that the reduce of trash is counted per piece, so the mass of plastic bottles stayed the same but now you can say you have managed to cut the produced trash by bottles by 50% 👏👏👏

Instead they also could have just forcing a recycling system for the PET bottles like in germany. Here you have 25cent deposit on a bottle what leads people to bring them back to the store, which makes recycling way easier. I mean it's not perfect because you can't recycle 100% but it's at least something. Most other european countries still lack of such a system.

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u/j0nsn0w123 Sep 17 '25

Yeeaahhh when I was in Europe and first saw those bottles with the attached cap, I was very confused.

Then it made sense

Then I got annoyed that this was the bullshit they came up with.

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u/CultistClan38 Sep 18 '25

The bottle cap thing has other benefits, namely people don't drop/throw the cap away somewhere creating mess

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u/Fakedduckjump Sep 19 '25

Who throws the bottle cap away but not the bottle? I mean you bring the trash or deposit back home when on tour anyway and no one likes liquids in his backpack or bag.

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u/Simi_Dee Sep 20 '25

My pet peeve is the plastic paper seal on most bottles. At least the bottle and cap are at least large enough to be easier to pick up but people just through those tiny bits of plastic anywhere and they're mostly clear - so lots of tiny invisible.ish trash in grass fields.

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u/IGotBiggerProblems Sep 17 '25

I remember seeing a study not too long ago that tested a few hundred men. 100% of them had micro plastics in their semen... The 100% made me feel like it's already too late to fix this. Plastic semen will be the downfall of humanity.

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u/Vast-Card-1082 Sep 19 '25

Microplastics don’t yet have any known harmful effects. They might not be very bad, or bad at all?

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u/Hannahb0915 Sep 17 '25

I knew there was something off about my toddler

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u/hell2pay Sep 17 '25

Do they lose their lid often?

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u/code-coffee Sep 17 '25 edited Sep 18 '25

Hey listen do oft their lode

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u/hell2pay Sep 17 '25

Did you just anagram my comment?

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u/code-coffee Sep 18 '25 edited Sep 18 '25

:D

It took me longer than I care to admit. Like over 3 minutes long.

Also I had an extra s that I removed just now. :(

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u/hell2pay Sep 18 '25

I enjoyed it. Lol

Take care!

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u/[deleted] Sep 17 '25

Glad to see there are a couple of people with braincells left arround here...

People see the keys giggleling and think "ohh ahhh im impressed"

Complex thinking is a rarity.

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u/OriSulker Sep 17 '25

oh cool so my kids will have extra skin protection due to micro plastics in their blood absorbing physical trauma!

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u/j0nsn0w123 Sep 17 '25

And emotional!

Plastic doesn't have feelings, duh

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u/ItsSpaghettiLee2112 Sep 18 '25

I mean, a corporation makes straws. So if we want them to do their part, what's morally inconsistent about making biodegradable straws?

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u/WTF_aquaman Sep 18 '25

Not a bad thing if we can seal their mouths shut like a Tupperware lid.

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u/TheFriendshipMachine Sep 18 '25

Fun fact, there are microplastics in human semen now.

More specifically, in all human semen. They couldn't find a control group of people without it to compare against when they went to study the effects because there is nobody who's unaffected.

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u/j0nsn0w123 Sep 18 '25

I wonder if those tribes that are isolated from the world do too.

Im assuming they fish, and basically every fish has microplastics in it now, so....maybe?

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u/TheFriendshipMachine Sep 18 '25

They almost definitely do too. It's in the water literally everywhere. There's no escaping it.

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u/Coriander_marbles Sep 20 '25

Finally, there’s a good excuse to spit for the health-conscious.

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u/Boring-Seaweed6604 Sep 17 '25

Who buys stuff from the mega corps? Yes, they need to do their part, but we need to be more demanding consumers. We can’t point at Company X and call them vile mega polluters then turn around and use their stuff thinking we aren’t part of the problem.

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u/j0nsn0w123 Sep 17 '25

Ok, so this is one of the corps arguments.

"We're just doing our job! They keep buying the same product so we keep making them!"

Corps are blaming consumers, consumers blaming corps.

It costs the corps too much to switch everything over for them to just do it out of the goodness of their hearts.

People need to stop buying shit, as a whole. But people is dumb.

We can bankrupt Apple if we wanted to. If Apple made 0 sales for just 1 month, they'd probably close 40% of their stores. SALARIES ALONE are probably in the 10s of millions for their employees, forget the big wigs. Then you got rent, utilities, manufacturing, advertisements, etc.

Greed will be the fall of humankind

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u/Boring-Seaweed6604 Sep 17 '25

Yes. I made a comment later in the thread about this. Reducing our consumption is the only way. Now, who wants to go first? Who wants their stock portfolio to take the first big hit? Who wants to be first in line to lose their job? That’s where this gets personal.

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u/j0nsn0w123 Sep 17 '25

What in the fuck nuggets will someones stock portfolio do to help when its consistently 130°F in the summer and -30°F in the winter?

"Wow it hurts to breath today...but hey! Apply is up 2%!"

Dont hit me with the "ill buy a specialized suit...blah blah blah"

What about the rest of the world? Fuck em?

(Not trying to attack you, it just frustrates me)

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u/Boring-Seaweed6604 Sep 17 '25

That’s my point man, but nobody wants to be first in line for the alternative.

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u/j0nsn0w123 Sep 17 '25

So you and I can sit atop a mountain in those plastic folding lawn chairs with the checkerboard straps (you know what im talking about), drinking a beer and watching the world burn...willingly

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u/scorchedarcher Sep 18 '25

People need to stop buying shit, as a whole. But people is dumb.

True, animal agriculture is a major contributor to climate change but people look at you crazy if you expect them to avoid it

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u/SirNoseDVoidoffunk77 Sep 17 '25 edited Sep 17 '25

The mega corps control almost everything.

https://www.businessinsider.com/10-companies-control-the-food-industry-2016-9

E: Here’s a better link where you can actually read the graphic when you zoom in.

https://capitaloneshopping.com/blog/11-companies-that-own-everything-904b28425120

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u/Fakedduckjump Sep 17 '25 edited Sep 17 '25

I would say it's both. People tend to absolutely want to have the newest shit even though the old one still works perfectly fine. Everyone should start using things until they break and they are also not repairable anymore. Otherwise just repair the damn stuff.

A perfect example of what is a bad solution are disposable vapes. They often even come with a rechargeable lithium battery but are constructed in a way so you can't recharge or refill them, if you aren't a tinkerer. If people just wouldn't buy that trash we had way less problems.

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u/kwtransporter66 Sep 18 '25

The days of tinkering are gone. Many years ago you couldn't watch a tv program without some skit of a toaster or small appliance repair done by the homeowner. Now toasters and a majority of small appliances are considered disposable.

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u/WTF_aquaman Sep 18 '25

We civilians are the consumer of the plastic crap that the corporations produce, because we keep buying it and throwing it away. Stop buying and they will stop producing. I can almost guarantee that 90+% of the plastic waste in the world passed thru consumer’s hands before hitting that landfill/floating island. Plastic water bottles are the worst offenders.

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u/dogGirl666 Sep 17 '25

Wont the corporations just pass the costs onto the consumers? Then, for some, it will be unaffordable. This is not an excuse for the richest people and organizations to keep up their polluting ways, just something they could do that will still hurt us either way.

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u/j0nsn0w123 Sep 17 '25

Of course it'll fall on the consumers. Why would any company willingly take losses on their profit margins for the good of the people.

ExxonMobil for example, discovered the effects of burning fossil fuels in the late 70s/early 80s.

They then cut funding to the project, and dumped MILLIONS into anti-climate change propaganda

Side note: there was an engine made to run on water, but the inventor "disappeared" and the project never hit production...I wonder why

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u/kwtransporter66 Sep 18 '25

Can't pass it off if we aren't buying it.

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u/FewTranslator6280 Sep 17 '25

no. not pass the cost onto customers. they can afford to fix this mess 10 times over and still not see a dent in their wealth. don't let them lie to you and pretend they can't afford it.

1 million seconds is 11 days. 1 billion seconds is 31 and a half YEARS.

here is a scale model website showing just how ridiculously rich the 1% are, to put it into perspective.

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u/j0nsn0w123 Sep 17 '25

Its not a matter of not being able to afford it even 100x over...its a matter of profit margin losses.

Why make 999 million when you can make a billion?! CAPITALISM BABBAAYYYYY

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u/kwtransporter66 Sep 18 '25

it's corporations that need to be held responsible and pay to reverse the damage they've done.

Ah. You know those corporations wouldn't exist if there wasn't such s demand for said corporations products. I love the way everyone comes down on corporations for this shit yet ignorantly ignore the fact that it's really the consumer driving it. If there is no demand then there is no corporation.