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SatansMaggotyCumFart ,

I just burn it.

tpihkal ,

I want to hate your comment so much but reality is reality.

Plastics just don’t really get recycled. Despite the efforts made (the company I work for included), recycling is such a joke because it’s hard to even FIND sources that WILL recycle certain things because at the end of the day it likely doesn’t exist because it’s more expensive and sometimes has an even greater impact on the environment to recycle than to just keep buggering on.

That said, I don’t like you burning plastics. I grew up burning paper trash in barrels but we were still mindful of not releasing toxic fumes into the local environment. So, fuck you for that one.

SatansMaggotyCumFart ,

I make sure the chimney takes it out of the environment.

tpihkal ,

How’s that then?

SatansMaggotyCumFart ,

It’s a long chimney.

tpihkal ,

I wonder if it’s anything like this lighthouse I’m showing your mum right now?

SatansMaggotyCumFart ,

My mother just passed away last week and I’m still pretty sore about it.

tpihkal ,

You miss out on a last chance or something?

SatansMaggotyCumFart ,

I missed out on a last chance to say good bye, because I was too busy burning my plastic.

tpihkal ,

Bruh, she told me to tell you she always wanted to love you.

expatriado ,

that 8% more than i thought

Rhaedas ,

9% is only recycled once, only 1% has been truly reused multiple times, so you're close enough.

Also:

Of the remaining waste, 12% was incinerated and 79% was either sent to landfills or lost to the environment as pollution.

They're the same thing. Incinerated is lost as pollution, it just happened to have one more use on the way there.

And I just realized, this wikipedia page linked is almost 10 years out of date!

mkwt ,

Incinerated plastic releases green house gases and some amount of micro plastics in the uncombusted ash.

Landfill plastic seemingly just erodes into micro plastics over long time scales.

can , (edited )

And I just realized, this wikipedia page linked is almost 10 years out of date!

You know what must be done.

TehBamski ,
@TehBamski@lemmy.world avatar

That’s 90% off of where I believe we should be before the end of the decade.

TerkErJerbs ,

I find it strange that more people haven’t put it together yet. The stuff plastics are made of is literally toxic byproduct from the O&G industry. Yes some of the products have extremely functional uses, but for the rest of it, they’re literally selling us their toxic waste and trying to make us responsible for disposing of it.

They might as well be standing outside the grocery stores with a barrel of goo and offering you a portion of it (for a price of course!) on your way out. So then you take it home and try to figure out what to do with it, and feel bad when you realize there is no way to dispose of it in an ethical way which is why they’re shoving the responsibility onto you.

ch00f ,

It really is frustrating. Like we even have resin codes. Little numbers printed that should indicate what kind of plastic it is.

I’m in Seattle. We have a robust recycling system. I still can’t find anywhere what resin code plastics they accept. The website just says “plastic bottles and jugs.”

I pay to use Ridwell. They accept plastic film and, as of recently, “multi-layer plastic.”

The only way to tell these apart is just by judging the plastic for how it feels. Plastic film is stretchier while multi-layer tends to be crinkly? Half the plastic we dispose of does not fall firmly in either camp, so we just do our best.

Why does it have to be this hard?

AbsoluteChicagoDog ,

Because recycling is not meant to be effective it’s meant to pass blame onto consumers

Semi_Hemi_Demigod ,
@Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world avatar

That’s why they should pay a tax for every pound of plastic they produce, with an equivalent refund for every pound they certifiably dispose of properly.

When you have to clean up your own mess you get good at it.

TerkErJerbs ,

They won’t even clean up their own oil well sites. Look up how many oil companies hide all their profits and then declare bankruptcy so that they can get the taxpayers to clean up after a given oilfield runs dry.

I don’t have a lot of hope in them taking care of the other end of the process either, unless it’s by force.

cashmaggot ,

Toxic waste in the soil, toxic waste in the products. Whee! I actually constantly do wonder what we could do to pump the breaks as a people. It's a difficult thing to think about, because I think the first step is getting people used to two things (at least here in America)

a) Things will not always be available when you go to the store
b) Things will not last as long as they typically have due to exposure

I'm not really sure how to get people on board because most are reactive not proactive and they tend to not react to things that can't directly correlate themselves or witness with their own eyes. I mean, also a lot of people are like me shrugging at what they cannot actively change.

I just try to buy intelligently, ride my things to their grave, and recycle and repurpose what I can. Shrugs.

Maggoty ,

Use glass, wood, and metal. The actual recyclable materials.

bobs_monkey ,

O&G?

Anti_Iridium ,

Oil and Gas?

bobs_monkey ,

Oh wow duh, thanks lol

reddig33 ,

That could be fixed with “virgin nondegradable plastic” taxes, deposit/return fees, and regulations on single use plastics.

But unfortunately the fossil fuel industry calls the shots in most places.

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