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Re:Pringles tube tries to wake from 'recycling nightmare' by marcosdumay on Friday September 11, 2020 @01:21PM (#24445026)
> 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.

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Re:Pringles tube tries to wake from 'recycling nightmare' by mschuster91 on Saturday September 12, 2020 @11:55AM (#24453348)
"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.
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