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> trash has ended up in the same landfills they were going to before. People regularly raise this as a criticism of recycling. It's kind of like complaining a
by ZeroGravitas 3y ago
> trash has ended up in the same landfills they were going to before.
People regularly raise this as a criticism of recycling.
It's kind of like complaining about medicine if you go to see a homeopath or a snake oil salesman.
Medicine has not "backfired", you just got tricked into doing something that was only pretending to be medicine. Aim your ire appropriately.
- tuatoru 3y agoNo, it's not. It's complaining about medicine that the National Institute of Health and other authority figures told you to take, that turned out to a waste of your time and mildly harmful.
- ZeroGravitas 3y agoSo which national agency told you to pretend to recycle?
- yjftsjthsd-h 3y agoIf they all say to recycle but don't provide the information or means to do it right, it's all pretend.
- ZeroGravitas 3y agoSeems to be a choice made on a state by state basis to even try: https://www.ball.com/getmedia/ac92bef4-4784-4d96-8972-dd6e12c03893/Map-Large.jpeg https://www.ball.com/getmedia/ac92bef4-4784-4d96-8972-dd6e12... But sure, I support the feds forcing the states to recycle properly, just as I support them being forced to offer decent healthcare. The ones that opt out for sometimes inscrutable reasons doesn't mean the whole thing is a magic trick. It just means they are poorly run states with developing nation level provision of basic civic services.