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"rational, reasoned and thoughtful" are unusual terms for an article that's fundamentally dishonest about where promotion of plastic recycling has come from: it
by kalkin 4y ago
"rational, reasoned and thoughtful" are unusual terms for an article that's fundamentally dishonest about where promotion of plastic recycling has come from: it's never been something environmentalists advocated (as anything more than slightly better than nothing, anyway), but rather is basically greenwashing by the plastics industry, whose trade organizations are the main source of claims that plastics recycling can be efficient.
The article also doesn't really attempt to demonstrate that the alternative of using less plastic is ineffective, although that might be true; a mocking aside about syringes, which are obviously not at the top of anybody's list for replacement, is not a demonstration.
- yodon 4y ago> plastic recycling has ... never been something environmentalists advocated We've lived through very different past few decades if you think environmentalists were not also advocates of plastic recycling, alongside the petrochemical industry. I fully agree that plastic recycling is greenwashing, but plastic recycling is greenwashing that 99% of environmentalists bought into and championed with gusto. Recycling plastic sounds like a great idea, it just doesn't happen to be a viable idea. That's a very hard message for most environmentalists to hear.