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Single-use plastics aren't going away, even the "wokest" corporations use them for packaging. The problem is that in most countries and most households, they en
by lazyjones 5y ago
Single-use plastics aren't going away, even the "wokest" corporations use them for packaging. The problem is that in most countries and most households, they end up in residual waste where they're burned rather than recycled. Not even in modern, environmentally-conscious, high tax countries like Austria the garbage processing has been modernized to the point where plastics are separated and recycled from collected residual waste. This is what needs to be done (would be a good issue to regulate with EU law, as opposed to many others).
- bbu 5y agoonly a few plastics can really be recycled. plastic recycling is hard and not worth the money as long as pumping out new stuff is way cheaper. Thus the need of taxing the production of single use stuff.
- lazyjones 5y agoHigher taxes for single-use plastics will just mean that the consumer ends up with less money and the same environmental damage (they'll pay for it). What's the point? Such issues should be solved with technological innovation.