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I'll start taking these climate protagonists seriously when they make coca-cola stop using plastic bottles.
by akomtu 5y ago
I'll start taking these climate protagonists seriously when they make coca-cola stop using plastic bottles.
- kmlx 5y agoaren't those recyclable?
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- akomtu 5y agoThe ocean is filled with these bottles and microplastics. People who bother to put bottles in a recycle bin are pretty well off and don't drink coca-cola, and those who drink it throw these bottles anywhere they feel like.
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- AngryData 5y agoNot in places with bottle deposits. You can get over 95% return rates with it.
- renewiltord 5y agoIn order to tackle the problem of climate change, I'm afraid we're going to have to just leave behind all those in the long tail who are single-issue on one individual aspect of the environment. So yes, you won't take them seriously, and they'll just not care. There's a sort of symmetry, with the exception that they're doing the other thing to some effect and you are not.
- cranekam 5y agoI don’t understand how people are conflating recycling and climate change. I have seen more and more of this recently. Of course, virgin plastics mean consuming more fossil fuels but beyond that the two are largely separate in my mind. Recycling everything is unlikely to do much to avert climate change, and could even make it worse if recycling is more energy intensive, but almost every day I see a discussion on climate and many “well, I recycle what I can” comments. Is there a common perception that recycling is a solution to the climate crisis or is it just that people feel it’s the only loosely-related option they have? I’m not saying recycling isn’t important — it is — but it’s much less important than our rapidly collapsing climate.