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13403343, Big oil lied about recycling plastic
Posted by legsdiamond, Sat Sep-12-20 09:24 AM
Shocking.. I know.
https://apple.news/A46YAci01SJivBn-YCaBgUg
recycling plastic is more expensive than making it.. so guess what we are doing with all this plastic?
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13403345, They dump the plastic in Africa and in the oceans
Posted by flipnile, Sat Sep-12-20 09:28 AM
https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/oil-companies-kenya-loosen-strict-stance-plastics-72744138
https://www.cnbc.com/2020/07/23/enormous-amount-of-plastic-will-fill-oceans-and-land-by-2040-report.html
And a bunch of other places around the world as well.
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13403348, China stopped taking it..
Posted by legsdiamond, Sat Sep-12-20 09:31 AM
so it goes to landfills now.
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13403382, The daily Show did a segment on this about a year ago
Posted by imperial, Sat Sep-12-20 06:02 PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-htnUTN4mH0&ab_channel=TheDailyShowwithTrevorNoah
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13403350, A lot of the recycled trash goes to the dump in my city
Posted by flipnile, Sat Sep-12-20 09:38 AM
https://www.inquirer.com/science/climate/recycling-costs-philadelphia-incinerator-waste-to-energy-plant-20190125.html
Now, it's just the same truck picking up both garbage and recycling. I put in work separating plastic, glass & metal from paper. Rinsing out jars. Makes me feel like a chump.
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13403353, Jesus
Posted by MEAT, Sat Sep-12-20 10:21 AM
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13403358, i couldnt even finish the article..too sad
Posted by Damali, Sat Sep-12-20 11:13 AM
imma keep separating it though...id rather try :(
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13403360, i really thought we knew this in the 90s
Posted by handle, Sat Sep-12-20 11:25 AM
And the only way to make it work was to charge a tax on manufacturers who produce new plastic that made using recycled plastic cheaper.
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13403363, We didn't. The article details the mass marketing of programs introduced
Posted by MEAT, Sat Sep-12-20 11:30 AM
In the 90s and beyond of all of the innovations and branding, and then mentions the subsequent death of those programs.
"NPR tracked down almost a dozen projects the industry publicized starting in 1989. All of them shuttered or failed by the mid-1990s. Mobil's Massachusetts recycling facility lasted three years, for example. Amoco's project to recycle plastic in New York schools lasted two. Dow and Huntsman's highly publicized plan to recycle plastic in national parks made it to seven out of 419 parks before the companies cut funding."
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13403368, are other forms of recycling also a lie?
Posted by shamus, Sat Sep-12-20 11:58 AM
Paper, metal?
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13403414, I think aluminum recycling is pretty good
Posted by luminous, Sun Sep-13-20 12:01 PM
Most aluminum used gets recycled.
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13403375, fun fact: rogue valley is on fire rn.
Posted by kinetic94761180, Sat Sep-12-20 02:38 PM
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13403384, best and worst invention
Posted by hardware, Sat Sep-12-20 06:31 PM
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13403406, moral of the stories: never trust big corporations
Posted by Dr Claw, Sun Sep-13-20 10:23 AM
I'd be fine if we had "corporate profiling", the way we (should not) have racial profiling
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13403417, lol straight up
Posted by Brotha Sun, Sun Sep-13-20 01:14 PM
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13403428, when you see a campaign you gotta ask who is paying for that shit
Posted by Rjcc, Sun Sep-13-20 06:58 PM
www.engadgethd.com - the other stuff i'm looking at
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13403489, AND YET, these rethuglican niggas stay wanting to kill regulations
Posted by double negative, Mon Sep-14-20 01:14 PM
the bullshit my eyes have seen could kill a an adult cow.
they keep talm about;
"the market will sort itself out, consumers will drive market forces to make companies make moral choices when it comes to clean/renewable methods"
like...the point of business is to MAKE MONEY and MAXIMIZE PROFITS. I don't think that there is anything wrong with this fact but it should never be allowed to run without checks and balances.
Why would I even think about thinking any business to have consumer rights and well being in mind?
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