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The first R is reduce. The second is reuse. Our cultural obsession with fashion completely bypasses each of these.

• SV_BubbleTime 5y ago
  Oh, but those R’s are hard and not fun. What’s really fun is throwing all anything plastic including wrappers, #5, #7, any metal, any paper basically anything but food into the blue recycling tub that someone comes to pick up and then I can smuggly look down on people that “don’t even care about the planet”, I’m doing my part by blankly assuming all my “recycling” isn’t going into a landfill! ... I wish I would still count the number of people that think that, but it’s too many. I try to “not buy shit”, and Im pretty sure it’s a lot harder than wishcycling.
• Quinner 5y ago
  Depop is reuse. Progress is made on the margins. Absolutist judgement of something a lot of people like does nothing to help.
• rland 5y ago
  I think depot would count as reuse, right?. Honestly, I'm stoked whenever we manage to make it past "recycle." I'd be happier if they announced that recycling was fake and everything you throw in the blue bin is trash.
  • samhh 5y ago
    Perhaps, but I think it can be argued that it encourages more consumerism. The market for second-hand selling may encourage those sellers to buy more new. Fundamentally the idea of an everchanging fashion is problematic, not just environmentally but also otherwise.