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Re:91% of plastic isn't recycled (2018) by jolux on Tuesday September 15, 2020 @05:17PM (#24486796)
The fraud was in denying the externality, which is on the environment in the form of massive amounts of material that can’t be recycled and which do not biodegrade.
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Re:91% of plastic isn't recycled (2018) by gruez on Tuesday September 15, 2020 @05:29PM (#24486905)
>which is on the environment in the form of massive amounts of material that can’t be recycled

Why is that bad? It's not like we're running out of landfill space (at least in the US), and it's not like plastic in a landfill leeches chemicals into the drinking water or something.

> and which do not biodegrade

I don't think anyone was fooled into thinking that plastics were biodegradable.

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Re:91% of plastic isn't recycled (2018) by jolux on Tuesday September 15, 2020 @06:44PM (#24487593)
>Why is that bad? It's not like we're running out of landfill space (at least in the US), and it's not like plastic in a landfill leeches chemicals into the drinking water or something.

Because it's not all going into landfills, it's ending up as litter and giant floating pallets of plastic in the middle of the ocean.

>I don't think anyone was fooled into thinking that plastics were biodegradable.

No, but metal, glass, and paper are all either recyclable or biodegradable or both.

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