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Are all plastics equal harm? I wonder if we just legislated taxes on plastics that local recycling centers can't utilize, if we could get the majority of the
by cwkoss 5y ago
Are all plastics equal harm?
I wonder if we just legislated taxes on plastics that local recycling centers can't utilize, if we could get the majority of the benefit of banning plastics with few of the downsides?
To what extent would greater standardization of plastics mitigate this issue (and make recycling more profitable)?
- kspacewalk2 5y agoEven plastic the ends up in a properly built American landfill is certainly much less harmful than plastic dumped into the river in a third world country. To the point where the comparison itself becomes a little bit ludicrous. Considering it takes so much less fossil fuels to make plastic containers than to many alternatives, shouldn't we focus on proper disposal in poor countries and otherwise move on to much more pressing environmental concerns, like I don't know, climate change?