This would almost make sense if there weren’t thousands of corporations, and 8 billion other humans, doing whatever the fuck they want…
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ivanafterall@lemmy.world 3 days ago
If you’d recycled more, there wouldn’t have been any plastic to end up in your blood, organs, etc… Who’s really the one shirking responsibility?
WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world 3 days ago
ivanafterall@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Excuses, excuses. Enlist a friend to help, if you need it!
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 days ago
Yeah that’s not true.
ObtuseDoorFrame@lemmy.zip 3 days ago
Plastic recycling is one of the primary sources of microplastics. They use jets of air to remove labels, which creates an enormous cloud of microplastic. People who live near plastic “recycling” plants have more plastic in their bodies than people who don’t.
There are articles about this out there.
feinstruktur@lemmy.ml 3 days ago
Source?
renzhexiangjiao@piefed.blahaj.zone 3 days ago
does it do more harm than dumping plastic in a landfill though?
ObtuseDoorFrame@lemmy.zip 3 days ago
Yes, based on what I’ve read. Less than 5% of the plastic that consumers place in recycling bins actually gets recycled. The rest is shipped to other countries, who then dump it in the ocean. When you throw plastic in the garbage it ends up in a domestic landfill. Landfills certainly aren’t ideal, but at least we know where it is, and it’s better than the ocean.
SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 3 days ago
they burn it. It has value as fuel to generate electricity.
renzhexiangjiao@piefed.blahaj.zone 3 days ago
Does the US keep any statistics on how much trash goes to where? I just checked the stats for my country, and here it’s way more than 5%. link if you’re interested
ivanafterall@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Fine, I agree with all of you, let’s stop recycling.
FosterMolasses@leminal.space 3 days ago
It’s more like “Let’s stop using plastic instead of patting ourselves on the back with a bandaid solution.” I know this can be hard for people who equate their environmental consumer habits with = “I’m a good person” and in turn make it out to be a personal attack, even though it isn’t.
Consider investing in a personality outside of environmental moral superiority and the switch to cardboard will be easy for you, barely an inconvenience.