[alt text: first, there’s text over a happy Albinauric from Elden Ring saying "me when I thought recycling would save the world. second, there’s text over a sad/depressed Albinauric from Elden Ring saying “me after I found out that plastic corporations invented plastic recycling to put the responsibility onto the consumer even though they knew plastic recycling was both chemically and financially not feasible, and now I have plastic in my brain, lungs, and testicles”.]
When they rolled out disposable plastic bags, they said they were green because they saved trees. I remember. The paper in bags was and is created using pulp from farmed trees, like other crops.
Yep. Fucking hippies acting like they were chopping old-growth forests for shopping bags. Idiots should have taken a forestry class. Talk about a truly renewable resource.
“But PAPER!!!”
in defense of at least some of the hippies, it’s not like they allowed the sustainability of some tree species to stop them from taking the last of the old growth as if they were they were trophy animals.
You invent a plastic bag of sufficient thickness to serve for a year or more. The grocery chain sees better profits with tissue thin disposable bags though. Guess which one wins?
Lots of inventions get changed or have knock on effects different than the inventor intended. We didn’t get lazy, the corporations saw a cheaper alternative to disposable paper bags and went with it. It is a systemic issue that rises above the end consumers decision.
Also its made from sawdust and scraps, stuff that has almost zero uses otherwise
I remember this too
because they were lighter and more compact, transporting them burned less fuel. so they were ‘less polluting’
Regardless of whoever came up with the idea, recycling does help and you should do it:
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20230317-how-recycling-can-help-the-climate-and-other-facts
It may not save the planet on its own, but it is part of the solution.
Well yeah. We need to properly dispose of what we can get back from the environment. But that doesn’t mean we should keep using it. It should be a case of proving something needs to be plastic, not passing laws to ban one plastic thing at a time.
Oh absolutely. There’s a reason that Reduce and Reuse are before Recycle in the Three Rs.
Every time I turn the LED light off to save the world I open up my plane app and see a thousand jet liners in flight. I then open the boat app and see ten thousand cargo freighters. Then I look at a picture of New York and Las Vegas at night.
I turn back on my LED light and leave the room.
This is my old man yelling at clouds
Don’t make the consumer guilty for the damage companies cause.
Use less plastic!
You can still recycle paper, metal, cloth and other materials.
Also, plastics with resin id codes 1, 2 and 5 are very recycleable, but don’t get recycled as they get disposed of with other plastics.
So, what do you do with it instead?
Bury It deep in the earth where it came from and mark it like toxic waste.
What do you do with the massive pile of earth you have to dig up to make space for all the plastic?
Reclaim wetlands from the rising ocean.
What do you do with the reclaimed land?
Here’s the best part. You leave it alone and let the marshlands do their thing.
Make it into a hill over the hole
What do you do with the hill?
It can be downcycled up to five times tho
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This reminds me of how ‘‘foax fur’’ products were just actually fur the whole time.
Edit: https://www.hsi.org/news-resources/mis-labelled-fur-uk/
Yes, I am referring to real fur being unlabeled or labeled as synthetic fur. This was a huge scandal a few years ago.
For real? Got a link?
I think they’re confusing the fact that faux fur is less environmentally friendly than real fur. Real fur can biodegrade, faux fur is plastic. It’s the “vegan leather” debate.
I’m not confusing anything I added a link, there was a news story years ago exposing fashion brands not labeling real fur (implying it’s synthetic because real fur must be labeled) or labeling it synthetic when it was real fur.
https://www.hsi.org/news-resources/mis-labelled-fur-uk/
Yes it was a huge news story a few years ago, a lot of designer labels were just not labeling and quietly claiming it was synthetic or labeling real fur synthetic.
They are more animal friendly but just as environmentally bad is the result of my google search
I’m referring to real fur being labeled synthetic it was a big news story a few years ago.
