The recycling warehouse fire reminds: plastics are a pollution nightmare

Re:The recycling warehouse fire reminds: plastics are a poll... by nyc_data_geek1 on Friday April 14, 2023 @04:22PM (#35574248)

Humanity cannot exist without a living biosphere. It's past time for a sober, clear-eyed conversation about degrowth and limiting the amount of poison we're generating. We are headed for biosphere breakdown at this rate, which we (existing at the top of the food chain as we do) will not be well prepared to survive.

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Re:The recycling warehouse fire reminds: plastics are a poll... by jmclnx on Friday April 14, 2023 @04:42PM (#35574477)

Well guess you are on the downvote train. But yes, I always hated plastics, I remember when glass was being phased out. I avoided plastic containers as long as I could, the last 20 years it has become impossible.

Time for the gov to put a large tax on all plastic containers to the point were glass becomes cheaper to use. But we both know that will never happen. So our decedents will live near large trash heaps of plastics, watching the heat from climate change melt the plastics.

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Re:The recycling warehouse fire reminds: plastics are a poll... by crgwbr on Friday April 14, 2023 @06:23PM (#35575595)

I too much prefer glass containers whenever I can get them. But glass isn’t without problems either—for one, it’s much heavier than plastic, which results in higher fuel consumption when shipping glass-packaged goods.

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Re:The recycling warehouse fire reminds: plastics are a poll... by klyrs on Friday April 14, 2023 @08:11PM (#35576392)

Reducing our reliance on plastic may encourage more to be sold in bulk, or at least distributed in bulk, and packaged locally. Back in the day, Pepsi bottles were reused and not recycled.

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Re:The recycling warehouse fire reminds: plastics are a poll... by rhaway84773 on Friday April 14, 2023 @09:51PM (#35576931)

If it turns out that preliminary research indicating that plastics are indeed highly responsible for increasing obesity (and all the problems that come with that) in the western world, it will be interesting to see how the world reacts to that.

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