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Frontline did a documentary about this a while back. Your plastic fruit container may have "3" on it with the recycle symbol, which means it can go to a facilit
by res0nat0r 4y ago
Frontline did a documentary about this a while back. Your plastic fruit container may have "3" on it with the recycle symbol, which means it can go to a facility that can recycle that grade of plastic, but that doesn't mean your city / state has a facility that can process that, or will spend the money to build such a facility.
It was a move from the plastics industry to push a feel-good policy, but is likely not doing as much good as many of us think.
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/documentary/plastic-wars/ https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/documentary/plastic-wars/
- lotsofpulp 4y agoVoters wanted a feel good policy too, so it worked for politicians and basically everyone. Even today, no one is going to get elected by telling constituents they need to consume less and lower their quality of life.
- baggy_trough 4y agoWe'll all be better off if we stop doing performative environmentalism by pretending that recycling helps.