• nyankas@lemmy.ml
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    9 months ago

    This is absolute nonsense.

    In Germany, between 38-48% of plastic is recycled (source). Sure, that‘s far from all of it, but still far, far better than nothing.

    The recycling rate might be lower in other countries, but just giving up and putting everything in the regular trash is probably the worst thing you could do.

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      9 months ago

      Still there is the issue, that recycling plants seem to pollute their surroundings with microplastics by just washing the plastic

      Obviously recycling is good, but with plastic it seems we’re not in a place to handle it reasonable in any way…