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> Put waste plastic in landfill, stop pretending we can "recycle" an ocean of waste plastic into stuff. > The entire environmental movement is focused on moppi
by Nursie 4y ago
> Put waste plastic in landfill, stop pretending we can "recycle" an ocean of waste plastic into stuff.
> The entire environmental movement is focused on mopping when it should be turning off the tap.
I'm not sure how much of your general screed I agree with ... but this is very much on point. We know that plastics are hard to recycle, expensive to recycle, and what is recycled is hard and expensive to actually use. We need to look for alternatives to plastic use in the first place. And this needs to be legislated. There's no need whatsoever for that pack of five tomatoes to be put in a plastic tray and then wrapped in more plastic.
- euroderf 4y ago> We know that plastics are hard to recycle, expensive to recycle, and what is recycled is hard and expensive to actually use. This will change at some point. The inexorable march of technology.
- Nursie 4y agoGreat, and when it does we'll use that. But we're not there yet, and in the mean time we're generating tons of In the mean time we have companies getting in trouble because they claimed to recycle plastic but instead they were just stuffing it in warehouses - https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2022/dec/23/environmental-watchdog-charges-redcycle-operators-over-secret-soft-plastics-stockpiles https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2022/dec/23/envir...