Re:Pringles tube tries to wake from 'recycling nightmare'
by marcosdumay on Friday September 11, 2020 @01:21PM
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> Because the universal solution to almost all the problems you mentioned is to drastically cut consumption.
Yet the thread is about recycling.
Efficiency (in consumption too) is a real valuable goal to work towards. And way more relevant than recycling. So, go on, you have a good problem to solve.
Re:Pringles tube tries to wake from 'recycling nightmare'
by mschuster91 on Saturday September 12, 2020 @11:55AM
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"Recycling" is just eye candy when it comes to plastics. For paper, glass and metal it works, but for plastics? It's way cheaper to just make new plastics. And there's no research that promises effective plastics recycling.
> Landfill can easily wait for a century or two. So why take focus from the hanging problems and place into it?
Because the universal solution to almost all the problems you mentioned is to drastically cut consumption. It's amazing how many resources get wasted on stuff no one needs (i.e. that has to be advertised so that people buy it).
Coronavirus has proven the amount of unnecessary crap (especially in clothing) is way too high, in fact so high it's dangerous for our economies if a couple of weeks of lockdown lead to yet-unknown levels of economic collapse.
We as societies should radically rethink how we want to live if we want to live on this planet in two hundred years in peace.