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> Conventional recycling (or better yet: avoidance) can reduce new landfills, but ha zero impact on stuff that is already there. Every day, we are putting tons
by speedplane 9y ago
> Conventional recycling (or better yet: avoidance) can reduce new landfills, but ha zero impact on stuff that is already there.
Every day, we are putting tons of waste into the ocean. With better recycling/avoidance programs, we may reduce that by 20%, greatly reducing the amount of waste we put into the ocean each year. I don't know the details of this tech, but it could remove far less than that same 20% reduction.