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Don't recycle. If its going to get dumped anyway put your plastic recycling in the garbage. Then it'll end up in a nominally regulated local dump and not in
by sbaiddn 4y ago
Don't recycle. If its going to get dumped anyway put your plastic recycling in the garbage. Then it'll end up in a nominally regulated local dump and not in a Vietnamese river.
Btw anyone who has even a cursory understanding of polymer physics suspected that plastics recycling was a scam. The whole scheme was either to greenwash industry throwing the moral responsibility to the end users or to condition us to recycle when they finally figured out how to do it.
For what it's worth, extracting energy out of plastic is probably best way to deal with it.
- londons_explore 4y agoYou forgot the third option... Grind it up, and put it in inappropriate places... Like "ooh, we can mix it into asphalt"... Mixing some material that you don't want and can be quite toxic into something you're gonna leave in the environment just seems like a bad idea... Let me think... When else did we do that? Oh yeah - when we mixed coal fly ash into bricks[1]! Everyone wants mercury poisoning from the bricks their houses were made from - and it was a very cheap way to dispose of otherwise hard to deal with toxic waste! [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fly_ash_brick https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fly_ash_brick