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Re:An illustrated guide to plastic straws (2021) by barbazoo on Monday May 02, 2022 @03:57PM (#31240090)
I wonder if that would financially work out and not just make it so expensive to ship our recycling over there to no longer make sense, causing us to ship the stuff to the next cheap country throwing it into the ocean again.
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Re:An illustrated guide to plastic straws (2021) by throwaway48292 on Monday May 02, 2022 @09:14PM (#31243133)
It all depends on laws/incentives, landfill locally would surely be cheaper than shipping around the world for recycling/"recycling". So we would need to invent the process and pass a law that encourages or forces its use.
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Re:An illustrated guide to plastic straws (2021) by dylan604 on Monday May 02, 2022 @05:36PM (#31241250)
Eventually, you go through all of the countries like this so that you have to deal with your own shit rather than shipping of to someone else. This would be the ideal thing would it not?
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