Green Chemistry

I loved learning about green chemistry (aka sustainable chemistry). Although I had not heard about it before or read about its principles, I was not surprised to learn that this exists. If only this could be implemented everywhere! It makes me wonder how difficult (and maybe expensive) doing green chemistry is. Are most companies just being lazy and unethical? Or just banking on secondary prevention efforts? I cannot think of any major green chemistry examples from my life at the moment but I was recently informed about biodegradable glitter instead of regular glitter since it is eco-friendly! The video on the plastic garbage patch was so hard to watch, especially since the ugliness of pollution/littering/waste is taking place in such a beautiful location. What will that place look like in 10 years? 50 years? It was sad and crazy to hear one of the women in the video say that our ocean is the largest dumpster :(