Macroplastics rule
Macroplastics rule
[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".]
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.
You invent a plastic bag of sufficient thickness to serve for a year or more. The grocery chain sees better profits with tissue thin disposable bags though. Guess which one wins?
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
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.
Well yeah. We need to properly dispose of what we can get back from the environment. But that doesn't mean we should keep using it. It should be a case of proving something needs to be plastic, not passing laws to ban one plastic thing at a time.
Oh absolutely. There's a reason that Reduce and Reuse are before Recycle in the Three Rs.
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.
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.
It can be downcycled up to five times tho
This reminds me of how ''foax fur'' products were just actually fur the whole time.
Edit: https://www.hsi.org/news-resources/mis-labelled-fur-uk/
Yes, I am referring to real fur being unlabeled or labeled as synthetic fur. This was a huge scandal a few years ago.
For real? Got a link?
https://www.hsi.org/news-resources/mis-labelled-fur-uk/
Yes it was a huge news story a few years ago, a lot of designer labels were just not labeling and quietly claiming it was synthetic or labeling real fur synthetic.
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