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ryandrake 8y ago
This is a good point. I’m reminded of a thread from yesterday: [1]. There are tons of places where nobody gives a single crap about waste disposal. The sides of the roads are literal trash heaps. “The West” is not going to solve this global problem by making everyone sort their trash into 10 different bins. It needs to stop at the source: the companies producing all this waste (mostly discarded packaging). 1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17403526 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17403526 EDIT: updated for the sensitive
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- dgacmu 8y ago
  small nit - the sorting of trash is not the exclusive domain of women. "by making people sort their trash". :-) (I say this as the household Ph.D. trash sorter...) Thanks for updating. --the sensitive.
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- billions 8y ago
  This. Visit Mumbai and tell one of the hundreds of million people that live on 50 cents a day to use their last ounce of energy to walk a piece of plastic to the trash can. I recycle gladly in California, but am realistic that problems at this scale MUST and WILL be solved by technology. Instead of finger wagging, readers of Hacker News may be the most qualified for building a machine that crawls dumpsites searching for plastic.
edgarvaldes 8y ago
I get so angry when people throw trash from the car window.
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chillwaves 8y ago
Have you ever heard of leading by example? It's not mutually exclusive to coercion.
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jayd16 8y ago
The entire population of Azerbaijan is less than Los Angeles (The greater LA area at least). The US is huge and our per capita pollution is a lot higher too.
Dirlewanger 8y ago
So because no one recycles in your country, everyone else should adopt your standards and not recycle too?
- VWrapper 8y ago
  Are you brain damaged or something? How is that relevant to what I posted like at all?
- peterwwillis 8y ago
  I think this should be added to the comment guidelines: please don't ask leading, nonconstructive questions as comments.
  - detaro 8y ago
    > Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith. should cover it

This is a good point. I’m reminded of a thread from yesterday: [1]. There are tons of places where nobody gives a single crap about waste disposal. The sides of the roads are literal trash heaps. “The West” is not going to solve this global problem by making everyone sort their trash into 10 different bins. It needs to stop at the source: the companies producing all this waste (mostly discarded packaging). 1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17403526 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17403526 EDIT: updated for the sensitive

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dgacmu 8y ago
small nit - the sorting of trash is not the exclusive domain of women. "by making people sort their trash". :-) (I say this as the household Ph.D. trash sorter...) Thanks for updating. --the sensitive.
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billions 8y ago
This. Visit Mumbai and tell one of the hundreds of million people that live on 50 cents a day to use their last ounce of energy to walk a piece of plastic to the trash can. I recycle gladly in California, but am realistic that problems at this scale MUST and WILL be solved by technology. Instead of finger wagging, readers of Hacker News may be the most qualified for building a machine that crawls dumpsites searching for plastic.

edgarvaldes 8y ago

I get so angry when people throw trash from the car window.

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chillwaves 8y ago

Have you ever heard of leading by example? It's not mutually exclusive to coercion.

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jayd16 8y ago

The entire population of Azerbaijan is less than Los Angeles (The greater LA area at least). The US is huge and our per capita pollution is a lot higher too.

Dirlewanger 8y ago

So because no one recycles in your country, everyone else should adopt your standards and not recycle too?

VWrapper 8y ago
Are you brain damaged or something? How is that relevant to what I posted like at all?
peterwwillis 8y ago
I think this should be added to the comment guidelines: please don't ask leading, nonconstructive questions as comments.
- detaro 8y ago
  > Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith. should cover it