>Because one country you have a say in and the others you don't?
Yeah but what's the point of your activism? Is it to tick off a box and say that you did "something"? Or is it to improve the world by some metric (ie. microplastic pollution)? If it's the latter, then it's pretty obvious that you should devote your effort into the highest impact projects regardless of whether it's righteous or not (ie. even if it means picking up "the tab of the externalized costs from all these companies selling single-use packaging").
>Why should any other country mandate a switch if even wealthy countries don't bother?
They shouldn't because I never made such a proposal. My original comment mentioned "investing in better waste management systems in developing countries".
Yeah but what's the point of your activism? Is it to tick off a box and say that you did "something"? Or is it to improve the world by some metric (ie. microplastic pollution)? If it's the latter, then it's pretty obvious that you should devote your effort into the highest impact projects regardless of whether it's righteous or not (ie. even if it means picking up "the tab of the externalized costs from all these companies selling single-use packaging").
>Why should any other country mandate a switch if even wealthy countries don't bother?
They shouldn't because I never made such a proposal. My original comment mentioned "investing in better waste management systems in developing countries".