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Re:Recycling Rethink: What to Do with Trash Now China Won’t ... by beowulfey on Sunday December 22, 2019 @06:55AM (#21856677)
That’s where the reduce/reuse part of the old term comes into play. Recycling was never meant to be the end-all solution. We need to reduce use of waste that is NOT easily recycled (plastics) and focus on using materials that are (metals, glass)
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Re:Recycling Rethink: What to Do with Trash Now China Won’t ... by NeedMoreTea on Sunday December 22, 2019 @09:32AM (#21857285)
Quite. Recycling was supposed to catch the little we couldn't reuse. When recycling points first started cropping up it was still common to return glass bottles for refill, and get a deposit back.

As recycling has grown, reuse has almost completely died out, and one time plastic has replaced most of those former deposit-return items.

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