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It's worth remembering Recycling is the least good thing we should be doing. 1. Reduce 2. Reuse 3. Recycle I always find it interesting in developing countr
by grecy 8y ago
It's worth remembering Recycling is the least good thing we should be doing.
1. Reduce
2. Reuse
3. Recycle
I always find it interesting in developing countries to see tons and tons of stuff being reused, way more than in Developed countries. i.e. A 1 liter beer bottle in Ecuador is $0.75 for the beer, and $1 deposit on the glass. The bottles are cleaned and reused hundreds of times.
- orev 8y agoYes, by far! Everyone fixated on recycling because it was the only option that didn’t require people to make real changes in their lives (and it’s amazing how much resistance there is/was to simply putting things in a few different bins). Now that China has decided to no longer be the world’s garbage dump, those chickens are going to come home to roost real quick.
- peterburkimsher 8y agoI'm very disappointed that in France, it's illegal to take things out of a déchetterie (scrapyard). They have fences and video cameras, and report offenders to the police. The policies are actively hostile to repairing and reusing old products, e.g. computers, printers.
- intended 8y agoBut dont forget developing countries also USE less. Eventually when their standard of living improves, so will their consumption. In any scenario, homo economicus will weigh the cost of reusing something, vs the convenience of using that mental space and time for something else which makes him/her happier. If the convenience is high enough, people will switch to the other product. This doesnt happen now, because costs are still prohibitive. But do note, that in India they pioneered the single use plastic package for clothing detergents. So now where people sold a whole box of detergent, there are now thousands upon thousands of plastic detergent sachets.