[alt text: first, there’s text over a happy Albinauric from Elden Ring saying "me when I thought recycling would save the world. second, there’s text over a sad/depressed Albinauric from Elden Ring saying “me after I found out that plastic corporations invented plastic recycling to put the responsibility onto the consumer even though they knew plastic recycling was both chemically and financially not feasible, and now I have plastic in my brain, lungs, and testicles”.]
So, what do you do with it instead?
Bury It deep in the earth where it came from and mark it like toxic waste.
Regardless of whoever came up with the idea, recycling does help and you should do it:
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20230317-how-recycling-can-help-the-climate-and-other-facts
It may not save the planet on its own, but it is part of the solution.
Every time I turn the LED light off to save the world I open up my plane app and see a thousand jet liners in flight. I then open the boat app and see ten thousand cargo freighters. Then I look at a picture of New York and Las Vegas at night.
I turn back on my LED light and leave the room.
This is my old man yelling at clouds
Don’t make the consumer guilty for the damage companies cause.
When they rolled out disposable plastic bags, they said they were green because they saved trees. I remember. The paper in bags was and is created using pulp from farmed trees, like other crops.
Lots of inventions get changed or have knock on effects different than the inventor intended. We didn’t get lazy, the corporations saw a cheaper alternative to disposable paper bags and went with it. It is a systemic issue that rises above the end consumers decision.
Yep. Fucking hippies acting like they were chopping old-growth forests for shopping bags. Idiots should have taken a forestry class. Talk about a truly renewable resource.
“But PAPER!!!”
in defense of at least some of the hippies, it’s not like they allowed the sustainability of some tree species to stop them from taking the last of the old growth as if they were they were trophy animals.
Also its made from sawdust and scraps, stuff that has almost zero uses otherwise
because they were lighter and more compact, transporting them burned less fuel. so they were ‘less polluting’
I remember this too
It can be downcycled up to five times tho
Use less plastic!
You can still recycle paper, metal, cloth and other materials.
Also, plastics with resin id codes 1, 2 and 5 are very recycleable, but don’t get recycled as they get disposed of with other plastics.
True
This reminds me of how ‘‘foax fur’’ products were just actually fur the whole time.
For real? Got a link?
I think they’re confusing the fact that faux fur is less environmentally friendly than real fur. Real fur can biodegrade, faux fur is plastic. It’s the “vegan leather” debate.
They are more animal friendly but just as environmentally bad is the result of my google search
https://youtu.be/y1Q9iYlz-xQ Bill burr has some insight to this.
