ChocolateDiligent t1_jee3b23 wrote on March 31, 2023 at 10:41 AM

Recycling for the most part is a failed program to curb the use of plastics in our society. Instead of finding alternatives to plastic use we spend money on keeping them in the system, but if the problems is the environment disaster plastics create, why not stop production of plastic? Oh wait the big oil lobby and decades of propaganda efforts. Oh, and those ‘recycle’ symbols on the bottom of containers are resin codes, that where intended to mislead people into thinking they are recyclable despite the fact that most all plastics are not recyclable.

Really great video on this:

https://youtu.be/PJnJ8mK3Q3g

Harmacc t1_jegi19u wrote on March 31, 2023 at 9:06 PM

That whole YouTube channel is fantastic. I recommend binging them all.

deadowl t1_jegnkj0 wrote on March 31, 2023 at 9:44 PM

That video is fucking weird. The major reason for the shitshow of recycling right now is that it got outsourced to China because it became comparatively economically nonviable in the US, and the China said "nevermore" to the health issues being caused by the outsourcing, passed regulations, and now here we are without even the facilities we used to have for recycling because they couldn't compete with unregulated China.

Video mentions you can only recycle plastic twice? Wouldn't that decrease plastic consumption to a third of present consumption? Fucking video for morons.