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Manufacturers have no responsibility or regulation in packaging. Buy some items made of metal, and you still generate immediate plastic packaging waste. Some of that plastic has recycling symbols on them, but they can be fake, and again, no regulation.

So all we really recycle is clear PETG. 90% of recycling plastics are landfill. We put stuff in blue bins to remove consumer guilt.

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BussyCat@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
Should just follow japans lead and incinerate the plastic for energy

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- SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  And just blow those toxins into the air.
  
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  - BussyCat@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    Filters and stripping columns. It’s not that hard to do and if you have a clean source of plastics (not mixed with garbage) then it’s basically all just hydrocarbons with a little bit of nitrogen. Carbon + oxygen + hydrogen = CO2 and H2O which while we don’t need more CO2 it’s significantly better then generating that same energy from oil as it is cleaning up our waste vs extracting more from the ground.
    
    Its a lot harder when you do trash incineration as that has a lot more nasty stuff in it but plastics are easy
    
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sip@programming.dev ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
idk man, in Rome, Italy you get fined if you don’t separate yo things.

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- Tyrq@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  Just because they fine you doesn’t make separating them any more or less recyclable
  
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