Tbf, I remember the times we reused everything, even tubes.
And it was a mess and there is so much evidence that the whole process of reusing is even worse for the environment.
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dingus@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I work in healthcare and sometimes I think about the amount of waste I generate in a day and it’s wild
philpo@feddit.org 1 day ago
lengau@midwest.social 11 hours ago
Plastic recycling in the home is basically a scam, but at the scale of a hospital where you’re generating large amounts of the same (known) plastic that’s going in its own bin, it’s much easier to recycle. I just bought a bunch of recycled PET that mostly came from medical waste.
LodeMike@lemmy.today 1 day ago
Health of humans is always excluded from plastic reduction laws and for good reason.
Donkter@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Yes, I would rather healthcare and science used 5x as much plastic as they do already and everyone else had to go completely wasteless than try to put any undue limits on them.