• solsangraal@lemmy.zip
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        2 hours ago

        i would actually feel better about the whole bullshit if i knew that when i die someone somewhere will draw sustenance from my plastic-ey balls

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    5 hours ago

    What bothers me is some of my friends heard about plastic recycling being fake and immediately assume all recycling is fake. So now they don’t even try to recycle normal cardboards, papers, and metals because “recycling is a myth”.

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      9 minutes ago

      Honestly, they’re not wrong. It’s reduce, reuse, recycle in that order for a reason. Excess packaging, regardless of material, is a problem. In a lot of places, even though you might separate your recyclables, they end up in the landfill anyway because nobody buys bales of recyclables when new material is cheaper and higher quality.

      The best way to address waste like this is to place an additional tax on new material, and subsidize recycling.

    • ℍ𝕂-𝟞𝟝@sopuli.xyz
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      3 hours ago

      That’s what happens when people get lied to, they stop believing everything, not just the lies.

      Lying to the public does insane damage.

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      A Pyrrhic victory is still a victory.

      counts useless numbers in a spreadsheet representing useless pieces of paper as society collapses around them