• PieMePlenty@lemmy.world
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    25 days ago

    Yes, you can recycle plastic. Yes, its complex due to different types and grades of it. The only responsibility of the consumer is to put it into the right bin.

    Yes, the corporations creating plastic products should do more. It doesn’t have to be financially feasible to recycle it, It needs to be ecologically feasible and companies producing plastic products should pay the recycling toll.

    We can also just burn it for energy like we do with tires… I recycle it like a good little cog in the machine because even if 5% of it gets back into product and not into my penis, is a win.

    • TheOakTree@lemm.ee
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      25 days ago

      We need to make it financially feasible to properly recycle plastics by making it so damn expensive for companies to be wasteful with plastics. Among many other things, of course.

      I doubt it will happen in our lifetimes, though.

      • TonyTonyChopper@mander.xyz
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        24 days ago

        The true long term solution is eliminating plastic. Back in the iron age there were glass bottles used to distribute milk and they were returned to be used again. Of course this system is more complicated and expensive than trucking in oil and turning it into single use containers so it’ll never happen before the world is burned.