Why aren't we all talking about this and trying to stop this from getting worse in any way any person can, immediately?
What can we do?.
Take it as an opportunity and create a business that involves collecting all the garbage? That would play nicely into trying to reduce the amount of unemployed people as well.What can we do?
Ultimately, what they do, is still at the mercy of the masses. The people who vote and go buy the products. If those people from the bottom who are in the majority start openly demanding changes then the higher ups are forced to react or otherwise end up damaging their reputaion if nothing worse.Ultimately though, what we as a species do, comes down to what a very small percentage of us do. The politicians running countries and the people running big businesses that are running the people running our countries. A systemic change like that is going to have to come from the top, from the people who most directly are causing the problem.
They have. But at the end of the day it's still plastic. In this sense "biodegradable" just means "degrades a lot faster". That stuff's still going to lie around as trash for a while before it starts properly decomposing.Worth noting that scientists actually have worked out how to produce biodegradable plastics. It's just going to be a bit longer before it's viable to actually produce things with them commercially and they'll be fighting an uphill battle getting big companies to convert.