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Needabackiotomy t1_j51fcsm wrote

Reply to comment by omganesh in Bloomberg: Amazon Packages Burn in India, Final Stop in Broken Recycling System. Plastic wrappers and parcels that start off in Americans’ recycling bins end up at illegal dumpsites and industrial furnaces — and inside the lungs of people by ombx

I mean I’m all for hating on plastic. But it can definitely be recycled…

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linuxlib t1_j51xqsx wrote

The evidence says otherwise. And as the article says, we've been lied to.

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/05/single-use-plastic-chemical-recycling-disposal/661141/

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Needabackiotomy t1_j51ywj9 wrote

I have many things in my house made from recycled plastic. I didn’t say that it’s effective or efficient. I said it can be recycled. Again fuck plastic but, it CAN be recycled.

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linuxlib t1_j5z0cbq wrote

From the article I cited:

>Plastic recycling does not work and will never work.

I understand the point you are making. But all I needed to do was say, "For all practical purposes, the evidence says otherwise."

Or perhaps I should have said, "The evidence says otherwise, but with statistically insignificant exceptions."

I think you are quibbling over a difference which is indistinguishable from zero.

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Needabackiotomy t1_j5z2cpt wrote

Man, responding 6 days later….just eating you up inside huh? Quibbling lol

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SIGMA920 t1_j52cf1a wrote

Not bothering to /= not possible. Frankly I'm surprised that the big companies aren't looking to use as much recycled plastic in the first place when it can be, it'd be cheaper than what they're doing now.

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Dubslack t1_j52thcb wrote

It's not cheaper, that's why they don't.

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SIGMA920 t1_j55plsl wrote

It would when you consider just how much plastic wrappings could is lying available to be recycled that could be and how much plastic could be reused with no problems.

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