tombruzzo@aussie.zone 1 week ago
This really pissed me off. I feel like some of the people behind redcycle should go to jail because they couldn’t make recycling work and just hoped it would sort itself out. When else do people get away with that excuse?
null_dot@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 week ago
I’m not sure this is an accurate summation of the situation.
Recycling pretty much doesn’t work practically or economically, never has. It’s not possible to collect plastic, and convert it into a product that has value, at a cost of less than that provided value.
If this was possible, companies would do it. (I’ll forego a rant about one of the few virtues of capitalism, anyway).
Redcycle collapsed after a fire at a warehouse or something. That’s a bit like saying my wife asked for a divorce after I accidentally shit myself.
tombruzzo@aussie.zone 1 week ago
I thought I remembered reading they came out with this big promise to recycle soft plastics amd for everyone to redirect soft plastics to them.
Then reality hit and they found out soft plastics aren’t that easy to recycle, and tried to keep things going anyway, in a way that wasn’t representative of the company’s situation