As easy (and understandable) as it is to complain about paper straws and the like, the truth is that it’s overall a new positive to not create trash that will outlive multiple generations of humans. However, the bad news is that we all have a long way to go.

The “Anticonsumption” online group shows the environmental effects of producing, moving, and buying too much stuff through memes and insightful posts. Hopefully, these images might be some good food for thought, so get comfortable, be sure to upvote the posts that caught your eye and comment your thoughts below.

#1 True True True

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#2 Apple Store Vandalized In Berlin

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#3 This Mother’s Day Ad I Received In The Mail Made Me Sad

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Looking at all the examples here might lead someone to despair, so it’s worth also highlighting that it’s not all doom and gloom. For example, just this week (November of 2024) Australian scientists have developed a method to recycle old textiles into concrete. The fashion industry and fast fashion in particular create mountains of waste, so this is a great step forward.

Remember, many of us purchase cheap clothing that tends to not even last a year, creating monumental water waste for products that end up in landfills at the end of the day. This is a good and sustainable way to turn that junk into a considerably more valuable commodity, construction materials.

#4 Yeah, What’s Wrong With The Internet?

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#5 Very Confused By This Advertisement

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#6 This 280000$ Crystal Disney Castle

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Speaking of emissions, researchers from the University of Massachusetts are working on “agrivoltaics,” a method to help farmers utilize even more of their farmland. The crop? Energy, gathered from solar panels placed across the land. Farming does come with its own emissions, but let’s face it, we need food, so might as well make it more efficient.

#7 Which Would You Rather: Cheap Clothes, Or A Habitable Planet?

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#8 This Is A Disposable Video Display Used As An Advertisement

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#9 From My Days Working In A College Dining Hall

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You may have noticed that behind most of these developments are researchers and scientists. It’s easy to get lost in the promises of green entrepreneurs, but at the end of the day, it’s research, both privately funded and publicly funded that is going to end up helping our environment.

#10 Now There Are “Disposable” Vapes You Can Play Games On

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#11 Because Of The Anticonsumption Mindset, I Have So Much More Respect For Someone Driving A Normal-Sized Old Truck Than A Brand New Gigantic One

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#12 My Mother’s Blender, Still Choochin Just Fine After 4 Decades Of Use, With All The Original Parts

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#13 What Was The Point Of The Plastic Bag Ban If They’re Simply Going To Rebrand Them?

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#14 “The Heroes We Deserve”

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#15 Shows How Outrageous Pricing Has Gotten, But At Least This Is A Small Step Towards Sustainable Consumerism

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#16 Mercedes Locks Faster Acceleration Behind A $1,200 Annual Paywall

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#17 Using Temu? Stop Bro

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#18 We’re Doomed

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#19 “But You Absolutely Need Our New And Latest Phone For $1,000!”

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#20 The Weight Of Different Breeds Of Chicken Over Their Lifespan

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#21 We Can Do It Again!

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#22 Unfixable Laptops

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#23 2 Billion Dollar Home In Mumbai Built On Orphanage Land Worth 10 M, Sold For 2.5m, Overlooking Slums

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#24 But You Already Have A Less Cute Version Of All Of This Stuff

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#25 That’s Too Damn Bad Bloomberg

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#26 Yikes

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#27 Five Below Propoganda

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#28 Making It Look Like A Bigger Amount Is More Important Than Using Less Plastic

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#29 As Seen Elsewhere

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#30 My Haven

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#31 The Irony Of These Items Is Too Much

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#32 This Just Completes It

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#33 Forcing You To Tip

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#34 Nike Tops Their Own High Tops With This Dumb Idea

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#35 Nothing Better Than A Car Dependent, Environmentally Unsustainable Lifestyle

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#36 Blue Shell The 1%

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#37 Local Funeral Home Offers This $85 Cardboard Casket. What A Great Way To Not Waste Money And Resources

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#38 Get In Losers, Disposable Tables Just Dropped

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#39 Anyone Else Really Annoyed By The Jeep Ducks And Other Copy Cats?

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#40 The Most Unnecessary Product I Have Ever Seen

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#41 🙁

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#42 Prime Day Be Like

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#43 So Proud Of This Joke In My Hinge Profile

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#44 Pulled From A Local Pet Stores Dumpster

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#45 I Just Went To Milan And It Is A Huge Consumer Market. Ads Are Everywhere, They Even Put A LED Panel On Their Cathedral

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#46 Plastic-Free Wipes…in Plastic Packaging

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#47 But The Shareholder Value

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#48 Ironic

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#49 Found This On R/Shittytattoos. Humanity Has Fallen ?

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#50 Sushi Place Put My California Rolls In A Tupperware Container I Brought Them!

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#51 I Always Disliked Spotify But Now I Actually Hate It

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#52 This Is It. This Is Peak Consumerism

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#53 This Smoothie Place I Went To Gives You Mason Jars To-Go, And Fills It Each Time You Bring It Back

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#54 Came Across This On Facebook

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#55 My Wife With A $4 Toy Basket

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#56 But I’m A Creep ?

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#57 Who Tf Needs All Of This For Just A Cup You Drink Water From?

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#58 Does This Count As “Repaired”? Fabric Shaver At Work

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#59 A Book From The 70s Based On A Computer Model Based On Just A Few Inputs Roughly Predicted The Next 50 Years, We’re At The Brink Of Ecological Breakdown, Billions Live In Dire Poverty And The Rich Own More Than Half Of The World’s Wealth. If That’s Not An Alarming Bell, I Don’t Know What Is

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#60 “Work, Consume, Die!”

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#61 Surely They Would

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#62 Made A New Cat Scratch Pad From Trash

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#63 Why

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#64 This Is A Great Incentive To Get More People Recycling And Cleaning Our Earth! However, We Must Keep Working To Limit Our Plastic Production And Live Sustainably!

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#65 Pretty Much Sums It Up

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#66 Should This Be Implemented Throughout The World?

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#67 Your Life Has Already Been Designed

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#68 This Kind Of Stuff Makes Me Irrationally Angry

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#69 I Found A Puzzle That Used Crappy AI To Create The Image. As A Graphic Designer This Makes Me Furious

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#70 Amazon Prime Day Is Such A Scam

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#71 I Assumed This Was R/Anticonsumption

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#72 Neighbors Threw Out Their $5400 Play Set Because It Was “Rotten”. Just Needed Some Paint, Good As New

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#73 For Something Never Worn Again

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#74 This Is So Dystopian, Company Makes A Bench Turn Your Bare Legs Into Ads

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#75 Ffs

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#76 I Got A Wet Stone And Am Sharpening Everything

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#77 Found At The Park And Grabbed Before My Daughter Could. Turns Out It’s Disposable. What A Waste Of Material For One Use And Screw People Who Leave These At Parks ?

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#78 I Wouldn’t Care If People Vaped If They Weren’t Generating So Much Plastic Waste

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#79 No Words

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#80 Boston Throw Away Your Mattress Day Was Today

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#81 I Can’t Afford/ Don’t Want To Buy New Jeans So Patched It Instead. This Is My 1st Time Patching Clothes So I Hope It Holds

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#82 The Recycling Shop Near Me Has Free Used Paints And Chemicals!?

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#83 On To The Next Fad

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#84 A Rare W For Apple Consumers

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#85 Some Billboards In The Netherlands Have Been Taking Commercial Breaks A Few Seconds Every Minute

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#86 It’s All Of Our Responsibility, As Inhabitants Of Earth, To Reduce The Impact We Make Upon It! If You Love This Earth, And Want To Make It A Better Place, The First Place To Start Is Living And Shopping More Sustainably! Creating Less Waste Is The First Step In Making Our Earth Healthy Again

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#87 A Whopping 58% Of Food Is Wasted Or Lost In Canada Every Year. The Pandemic Has Put Extra Strain On An Already Inefficient Food System As We Saw Farmers Forced To Dump Milk And Abandon Crops Due To Plummeting Demand

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#88 Tombstone Plant Labels Carved From Homemade Adobe

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#89 All This Plastic For 6 Chocolates

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#90 ♻️a Drain In Karachi, Pakistan. Hard Work Can Go A Long Way In Cleaning This Earth! Use Less Waste And Work On Picking Up Litter During Your Day! Live And Shop Sustainably ♻️

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#91 I’ve Seen It All Folks

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#92 Advertise For Them, For The Low Price Of $5 Each

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#93 This Sculpture Represents The Amount Of Plastic Found On Only 2 Miles Of Coastline In The UK. We Can Do Better! Live And Shop Sustainably

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#94 Exactly

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#95 Courtesy Of A Canadian Grocery Chain

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#96 I’ve Used The Same 50 Cent Razor For Over 1.5 Years And It Still Works Totally Fine

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#97 Nice One Channing Lad ?

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