recycling plastic is more expensive than making it.. so guess what we are doing with all this plastic?
**************** TBH the fact that you're even a mod here fits squarely within Jag's narrative of OK-sanctioned aggression, bullying, and toxicity. *shrug*
legsdiamond Member since May 05th 2011 79586 posts
Sat Sep-12-20 09:31 AM
2. "China stopped taking it.. " In response to Reply # 1
so it goes to landfills now.
**************** TBH the fact that you're even a mod here fits squarely within Jag's narrative of OK-sanctioned aggression, bullying, and toxicity. *shrug*
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.
7. "We didn't. The article details the mass marketing of programs introduced" In response to Reply # 6
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."
------ “There is no fate that cannot be surmounted by scorn.” -Albert Camus
16. "AND YET, these rethuglican niggas stay wanting to kill regulations" In response to Reply # 0
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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