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Re:Recycling Eyeglasses Is a Waste of Money by tamana on Saturday July 02, 2016 @11:09PM (#12024658)
Plastic recycling was a platic-industry PR campaign to make consimers more friendly to buying plastic by assuaging their feelings of guilt. Now it's embedded in our culture as a received truth.
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Re:Recycling Eyeglasses Is a Waste of Money by dredmorbius on Sunday July 03, 2016 @12:48AM (#12024859)
Source?

Not doubting -- see Annie Leonard's Worldwatch Institute (2013) piece on the fallacy of individual responsibility, particularly in disposable packaging littering. But I'd like to see specifics if you've got them.

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