Serious is when you talk about getting everyone (esp. like Coca Cola and Nestle) to stop using tons of plastic in packaging before you talk about recycling thos

Serious is when you talk about getting everyone (esp. like Coca Cola and Nestle) to stop using tons of plastic in packaging before you talk about recycling those tons. Recycling [edit: plastic] is a losing game. It degrades during recycling and its uses are limited. The only winning move is to not generate waste unnecessarily unless it biodegrades quickly on human timescales or is at least non-toxic. There's a lot of bullshit in recycling industry that it's hard to take claims at face value anymore. The whole industry sometimes look like one big virtue signaling and PR campaign to get more subsidies from the gov. 200 tons per hour doesn't say much about what it recycles to, how can it be used, how much micro and nanoplastics it puts out into the environment as side effect, if you didn't just put it all on a ship and sent off to Malaysia. And ramping up to 200 tons per hour while manufacturers are ramping up to 200 tons per minute would be a waste of time and resources compared to talking to those manufacturers in the first place, why do they get to do it? And the deeper problem is that it's all great from economic perspective if more stuff is produced, more money is spent, people are busy, jobs are created, cogs are spinning, I mean another whole industry to clean up after one shitty industry? is it christmas already?! can't wait for the nanoplastics cleanup industry next! as long as Coca Cola and friends keep churning out more and more plastic, there will be enough things to do to keep everyone busy and productive!