Because you're obsessed with individual action for systemic problems. I'm American but I figured out years ago that individual action cannot solve systemic problems.
Recycling is a scam from the plastic industry. You can Google and easily find that out. You don't have a choice but to drive. If you're using that little amount of electricity it's probably because you don't live in a place where it gets extremely cold or extremely hot. Other than that or you live in some place that gets very cold and you've been using gas.
That's fine people need to live I'm not calling you out on it. Blah blah blah there is no ethical consumption under capitalism blah blah blah.
But what I'm saying is you're trying to solve systemic problems with individual action.
The actual solution would be to transition to walkable cities and public transit to do a way of the cost and damage from cars and then to transition our electrical grid to renewables especially wind and solar to stop the excessive emissions from oil and gas. Meanwhile do away with disposable plastic because the actual costs to society are extremely high.
And there's the phrase you're missing, externalized costs.
Whether it's the trillions of dollars of damage done by climate change or the trillions of dollars of damage done by us being filled with microplastics and needing healthcare to deal with that companies that make these products, and oil and plastic and cars are all products in a way we don't think of them as such, those companies get too externalize the costs on to you so that you pay them and they get all the profit.
Unfortunately you can't just magically wave a capitalist wand and make them pay. You have to break down those systems completely. And then again we get back to it being a systematic problem not an individual one.
But the thing is you have been programmed just like the rest of us to view everything as an individual problem because very powerful and very rich assholes do not want you solving the systemic problems that they profit from.
And the fact that you think right now that I may conspiratorial lunatic is part of that programming. What we need is a kind of deconstruction for corporate capitalism like we have today similar to how religious extremists will go through a deconstruction to get away from a cult.