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This is the wrong attitude. This is victim blaming. Expecting ordinary people to understand the bewildering array of plastic types, biofilms and composite mater
by entropyie 3y ago
This is the wrong attitude. This is victim blaming. Expecting ordinary people to understand the bewildering array of plastic types, biofilms and composite materials is not realistic. Add to that deceptive packaging (like the infamous green triangle that doesn't mean it's recyclable at all). The solution is to tackle it at the source of all this waste. Tax the shit out of supermarkets and shops that sell non recyclable packaging.
- samirillian 3y agoI think you're posing a false dichotomy here. I, as a person who is still fuzzy on how to recycle, did not feel blamed. I agree with the general sentiment; nobody knows the rules! We should've had a whole class on shit like this in high school. Obviously, there are larger problems caused by unfettered capitalism at work, but increasing recycling and composting infrastructure, hand-in-hand with public education on how to use that infrastructure, would make things better, and probably add some intangible benefits, like feeling some degree of agency over the process, which would have positive externalities like making people feel like they might have some greater agency over the bigger, structural problems, which might lead to greater political/economic change.
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