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State and Federal governments should outlaw any non-recyclable plastic. I'm okay paying higher prices, but they should streamline the plastics that are used in
by docker_up 8y ago
State and Federal governments should outlaw any non-recyclable plastic. I'm okay paying higher prices, but they should streamline the plastics that are used in packaging and in products so that everything can be recycled and consumers don't have to think about it. When I order things from Amazon, and it comes in things like styrofoam, it is absolutely maddening, in 2018.
The Federal government should pass a law where absolutely no non-recyclable plastic can be used anywhere. Let our costs go up, it will make things like recycling a lot more economically viable by simplifying things incredibly.
- ars 8y agoThis isn't going to help. Almost all plastic is recyclable already - but not when it's mixed with other junk. What they should do is stop recycling glass, and recycle paper separately. That would solve the problem much easier.
- jMyles 8y agoWhy stop recycling glass?
- ars 8y agoBecause it's worthless. Because it contaminates everything else, making it much harder to recycle the other items. Because there's no reason to recycle it, the planet is made of it, we're not going to run out, and it's impossible to waste it. Do you know what they do with recycled glass right now? They crush it, and use it as a landfill cover (instead of sand). There's little point in spending all that effort to do that.
- jMyles 8y agoInteresting. I had no idea. So I guess... just use (and reuse) glass but don't recycle it?
- edude03 8y agoI think what docker_up is saying is that if all materials were recyclable there wouldn't be "other junk" to mix in. I actually agree strongly with this, although I'm not sure how it could be practically implemented.
- ars 8y agoThe other junk can be recyclables as well - glass for example. But when mixed, it's too hard to recycle.