Re:Mushrooms Can Eat Plastic, Petroleum and CO2 (2018)
by oblio on Thursday December 03, 2020 @09:49AM
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1. People throw trash everywhere. You'll see trash on Mount Everest, you'll see it in a random forest in Eastern Europe.
2. Landfills are not enough. Rich countries just "export" their trash for storage in poor countries.
We're just making too much trash, there's no "proper" or "better". Reduce, reuse, recyle. Recycle is mostly a lie.
We need reduce and reuse.
Re:Mushrooms Can Eat Plastic, Petroleum and CO2 (2018)
by skocznymroczny on Thursday December 03, 2020 @10:07AM
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In Poland it became harder to export trash to other countries, so instead landfill owners started burning all their trash to make space for new. Commentators refer to it jokingly as "storing trash in the cloud".
Re:Mushrooms Can Eat Plastic, Petroleum and CO2 (2018)
by eru on Friday December 04, 2020 @04:45AM
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> People throw trash everywhere. You'll see trash on Mount Everest, you'll see it in a random forest in Eastern Europe.
That's true, but doesn't mean much. Just like for poisons, dosage is important.
Then we can also talk about Asia being the primary source of the trash in oceans...