Recycling was always a lie anyway. There’s no true circular economy with plastic and a large portion of the recycled plastic is “recycled” into energy by burning it. It’s always been a tool for manufacturing consent from the masses by making them feel like it’s okay to use this much of a limited, non-renewable resource frivolously.
Plastics recycling absolutely could work better, but you’d actually need some firm regulation around it: Only monomaterials, standardized types of plastic for per use case, labels that are either laser-etched or that fall off on their own, caps made of same material as the body, and no random surprises that ruin recycling.
Recycling was always a lie anyway. There’s no true circular economy with plastic and a large portion of the recycled plastic is “recycled” into energy by burning it. It’s always been a tool for manufacturing consent from the masses by making them feel like it’s okay to use this much of a limited, non-renewable resource frivolously.
Yes, and many plastics are proprietary and can’t be recycled. Truly, we need to just ditch plastic
Plastics recycling absolutely could work better, but you’d actually need some firm regulation around it: Only monomaterials, standardized types of plastic for per use case, labels that are either laser-etched or that fall off on their own, caps made of same material as the body, and no random surprises that ruin recycling.