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Around 9–14% of plastics are recycled worldwide, and almost none of electronics or other products that would have to be disassembled first. I don’t know where
by 9dev 5mo ago
Around 9–14% of plastics are recycled worldwide, and almost none of electronics or other products that would have to be disassembled first.
I don’t know where "here" is for you, but even a country like Germany only manages to recycle 38% of plastics overall, and a huge portion of that is plastic bottles - the lowest-hanging fruits of the recycling tree.
And all the while, every day millions of single-use vapes are sold and discarded, each of which containing a microcomputer and rechargeable battery. Recycling is a lie.
- Hikikomori 5mo agoGuess you just ignored the items I wrote.
- 9dev 5mo agoI don't think I did; what you wrote just doesn't really address the problem. Yes, in a few industrial countries, raw materials that can be easily separated will be recycled. But that just isn't the real problem, when all the electronics and glued components and biological waste and mixed trash are impossible to recycle. People are told to just buy more stuff all the time, to a point where maintenance or repairs are economically unsustainable for many things. And I also don't understand how pointing out this travesty is somehow a climate change denier position.
- Hikikomori 5mo agoI dont disagree, but your original statement was extremely broad.