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Recycling is the problem. It takes additional fossil fuels for transportation and processing to ship to across the ocean and be dumped in a river. Disposing of
by protonfish 8y ago
Recycling is the problem. It takes additional fossil fuels for transportation and processing to ship to across the ocean and be dumped in a river.
Disposing of plastic waste in landfills is by far the best environmental option.
- jillesvangurp 8y agoNot producing the plastic is a better solution. Making disposing of that plastic the producers problem is the way to get there. It will cause them to rethink whether they need that plastic and what type of plastic to use. When dumping in a landfill, bio-degradable becomes a nice feature. Landfills are already overflowing. Nobody likes living on a toxic waste dump. That's why the current madness of shipping waste halfway across the planet persists.
- SupremeMeat 8y ago>landfills That's my reasoning: today's waste zones will become tomorrow's resource mines, once the economics of recycling finally become organically profitable!