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SAME. It kills me inside when people wrap things like fruits and potatoes in plastic that have natural peel they'll remove before eating anyways
by lunarboy 1y ago
SAME. It kills me inside when people wrap things like fruits and potatoes in plastic that have natural peel they'll remove before eating anyways
- ehnto 1y agoJapan is wild for this, but also pretty good at recycling plastic in general. Bananas are often wrapped individually for sale. You buy a box of biscuits and they're often individually wrapped in plastic etc.
- gleenn 1y agoJapan recycles but also a whole bunch of their waste is incinerated. I think they super-heat it to reduce emissions but guessing that also costs energy which also secondarily causes emissions.
- adastra22 1y agoIt is energy positive. Their incineration plants provide power.
- scheme271 1y agoMost of that plastic can't be recycled so it's probably being burned or thrown away.
- adastra22 1y agoJapan incinerates most of their plastic.