This should probably be done anyway. Just like Banning environmentally damaging things like plastic bags. You can't count on society to do the right thing on their own. Most people are to caught up on themselves to give a shit to anything beyond their own little existence. If it inconveniences them in the slightest, regardless how little, they will not do it.

plastic bags are banned in most of the world. Except the US. beause the plastics company and the American chemical council, snuck through some laws that stops states from banning or charging for plastic bags. Paper bags were filling up land fills, but with recycling of paper now, it can be a renewable resource. Plastic bags arn't. And when you take them to the supermarkets that say recycle plastic bags, your being lied to. They end up in the trash just like they would at your house. It's a promotion by the ACC to blindfold the public thinking plastic bags arn't as bad as they truly are.

The real solution is for people to take reusable cloth bags everywhere when they shop. Same goes for not using the thin produce plastic as well and deli bags. Elimination of those would help damaging waste tremendously.

and substitute it with something that tricks your body into thinking it's still hungry. BRILLIANT!

that is the million dollar question. The way I see it. Anything that is good for the environment, or medications, should not be able to be patented. That way all companies have access to make things that help the environment, or cures for things. Instead of the big companies buying the rights, then shelving it and alter it so it makes them money and not as effective as it should be. Greed will destroy our planet.