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Re:You Need Deli Cups by paleotrope on Wednesday May 23, 2018 @10:29PM (#17140546)
Just put it in the regular trash then.
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Re:You Need Deli Cups by dingaling on Thursday May 24, 2018 @01:21AM (#17141305)
I'm not exaggerating when I say that your comment shocked me.

If your municipal authority offers 'tours' of landfill facilities I'd urge you to sign-up for one. The scale is staggering.

In Northern Ireland, with fewer than 2 million inhabitants, we have one of the highest recycling rates in Europe ( about 40% ) yet still 400,000 tonnes of waste goes to landfill very year. 200kg per capita

The USA generates roughly twice as much waste per capita...

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Re:You Need Deli Cups by jogjayr on Wednesday May 23, 2018 @10:35PM (#17140573)
So that it disintegrates to microscopic fragments and contaminates the water over decades?
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