How Big Oil Misled the Public into Believing Plastic Would Be Recycled

Re:How Big Oil Misled the Public into Believing Plastic Woul... by KeepFlying on Friday September 11, 2020 @09:25PM (#24449053)

That may have been the intent, but that wasn't the result.

Even though recycling is supposed to be the last resort, it was treated as an effective solution on its own instead. Less attention was paid to "reduce" and "reuse" and most of the attention was focused on "recycle"

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Re:How Big Oil Misled the Public into Believing Plastic Woul... by mason55 on Friday September 11, 2020 @10:04PM (#24449230)

Because “recycling” is easy if you just ship it to China and then they dump it in the ocean. Reducing and reusing take real effort and change in behavior.

If people had to recycle for real it would be more challenging and then reduce and reuse would be considered more often.

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Re:How Big Oil Misled the Public into Believing Plastic Woul... by kbutler on Saturday September 12, 2020 @12:44AM (#24449899)

Post-consumer recycling also takes real effort, most of it from individuals. It just turns out to be largely wasted effort.

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