[ars]

> They’re making businesses absorb the externalities, as they should.

That just means the business will raise prices.

[schubidubiduba]

I'll happily pay more if that means less trash, less microplastics and less CO2. The current consumerism is not sustainable in the long run.

[troad]

And when all those unnecessary increases in the cost of living lead to increasing vote share for the far right - eventually maybe even a far right government - what then? How sustainable will that be?

Have you actually read the science on microplastics? [0]

[0] https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/jan/13/micropla...

[corford]

Why is that automatically bad?