With plastic pollution littering the planet, certification organizations are popping up to sell “plastic credits” to companies, allowing them to offset the plastic they make and use with equivalent plastic waste collected and reused. Critics are skeptical.
Right now it’s about as useful as the 10 cents for a plastic bag thing. Tiny inconvenience and everyone does it anyway.
The penalty needs to be at least 10 times more if we want companies to even notice.