Plastic Bag Pollution - Who's To Blame?

How the masses were brainwashed into using trillions and trillions of plastic bags.

50 years ago we used to carry our shopping in the UK in a shopping bag or basket.

Then corporations realised that if they provided us with plastic carrier bags for free we would be very likely to buy more of their stuff and they were absolutely right.

So after using trillions and trillions of bags and for years seeing images of islands of bags appearing in our oceans not to mention all those in landfill or exported to China it's taken us until 2019 for corporations to finally start to reduce their use. And by corporations through government making the general public feel guilty about their use, they have very cleverly made sure we now pay for the bags and re-use them. So corporations still sell the same amount of stuff to average Joe and charge him for carrying it away, all the while showing everyone how wonderful and environmentally friendly they are!

Yes of course the end user must take responsibility for the damage they've caused but by using psychology through various forms of media, corporations successfully changed the behaviour of the masses in order to sell them more stuff, most of which they never needed in the first place.

Plastic shopping bags is of course only a very tiny part of the enormous global problems that the human race has created. We are currently not only accelerating our demise as a species but we're taking all the animals and plants with us.