The logo everyone uses to check if something is recyclable is actually a three part reminder: Reduce > Reuse > Recycle.
That is why some bubble packaging has the logo but a reminder to reuse, since it can’t be recycled.
As a society we have skipped completely over the reduce and reuse because of the recycling myth. It isn’t a myth that plastic can be recycled, but that it rarely if ever is because only limited types and in specific conditions are ever cost effective.
It’s not a myth so much as a boondoggle.
boondoggle /boo͞n′dô″gəl, -dŏg″əl/ noun
- An unnecessary or wasteful project or activity.
- A braided leather cord worn as a decoration especially by Boy Scouts.
- A cord of braided leather, fabric, or plastic strips made by a child as a project to keep busy.
It’s pitchfork time
Peter Kalmus, the scientist who posted the tweet, has been arrested multiple times for his protest actions. So he isn’t just lying around waiting for pitchfork time.
Plenty of countries have nationalized their oil industry. None of them reduced oil extraction.
Let’s also go after the folks in the plastics industry who intentionally misled the entire country into thinking their products were recyclable. Even now they use that symbol that was designed to look like the recycle symbol but it just tells you which type of plastic it is.
Nonono! You’ve gotten this all wrong! Technically speaking, it is recyclable. If you take each individual piece and treat it individually so you can separate all the different layers we glued onto each other from one another, that is. I mean, we could have just used one type of polymer, but then our package would have been 3.45% less shiny than that of the competition, We had a call about this. We all agreed that that’s unacceptable, right? So all is tres bueno! Right?.. Right?
only types 1 and 2 are really recyclable and even those can only be recycled once or twice before the polymers are basically ruined and can’t be used again
lol. This image thinks suing oil is where we are. This isn’t 1950. We are at the slaughter the billionaires, and stop breeding step.
Effective systemic change requires changing the systems, not individual people or companies. If we want less virgin plastic or gasoline burning, it needs to be less profitable to extract oil, process it, and sell it to people who want it, otherwise somebody is going to do that.
There has to be a hard limit on the amount of CO2 that can be extracted, and let that limit go down each year. Then use permit auctions or carbon coins or whatever to determine who can extract, or import. It’ll automatically make plastic and gasoline more expensive and alternatives cheaper in comparison.
Of course there’ll be lot of “but the economy” and “our competiveness”. If the last half century is anything to go by, economy wins. So that means fundamental chances to the economy. To the way money works, how loans use interests and drives growth before anything changes. For a lot of people that’s almost physically impossible to even contemplate. Usually this changes as the current system deteriorates, but that can take a while.
This is why numb-nuts like spez at Reddit are building war bunker’s. Protection from a revolution.
Earth Day is the Democratic Party of days.
Sure, it doesn’t directly make things WORSE most of the time, like the alternative (not caring at all) would, but it’s nowhere near as effective as the better solutions that relying on it to fix things are suppressing.
Of course, that’s by design in both cases.
Americans:“we are powerless, insignificant drops in the bucket when it comes to emissions, billionaires are responsible for all of this.”
Also Americans:“we will exclusively buy bigger and less fuel efficient trucks and SUVs that make up the single largest source of emissions in the country.”
