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This youtube video explains why plastic recycling exists, how it's mostly ineffective and why is it a scam created to normalize one-use plastic. This basically
by mngnt 8mo ago
This youtube video explains why plastic recycling exists, how it's mostly ineffective and why is it a scam created to normalize one-use plastic. This basically applies to electronics and others. "Why would I reuse or reduce, I can buy, consume an recycle".
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PJnJ8mK3Q3g https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PJnJ8mK3Q3g
- pbhjpbhj 8mo agoTax CEOs of vape companies the percentage of their vapes that their company doesn't physically retrieve from customers to be recycled ...
- DaSHacka 8mo agoA completely ridiculous and nonsensical proposal I can only assume was said in jest.
- GuinansEyebrows 8mo agoHey, if your entire business plan is to produce actual garbage, maybe you should be held responsible for making sure that garbage has a pathway to proper disposal.
- DaSHacka 8mo agoThe company, sure, but selecting a fall guy to deal with arbitrary expenses will not help get anything done for the environment.
- Dylan16807 8mo agoIt sounds like a description of most of a deposit system to me, and deposit systems are good at encouraging recycling.
- tstrimple 8mo agoSee "core charges" for many automotive parts to incentivize the return of waste for refurbishing at the higher end and bottle deposits for cans/bottles at the lower end. It's weird how things so common in one part of our society can seem so foreign in others.
- pbhjpbhj 8mo agoYes, a jest. But essentially you have to directly impact the take home pay off CEOs as that appears to be the only thing they will change their behaviour for.
- sofixa 8mo agowildly country dependent, e.g. check the stats for the EU: https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/web/products-eurostat-news/w/ddn-20251022-1 https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/web/products-eurostat-news/w/d...