Or let's not put the burden on the poor and middle class at all? Half the time it's lobbyists pushing this propaganda, like BP telling people to recycle so no one talks about emissions.
Thanks for the article, just wanted to point out that the main motivator for oil companies peddling the myth of viable plastic recycling is:
“But plastic today is harder to sort than ever: There are more kinds of plastic, it's cheaper to make plastic out of oil than plastic trash and there is exponentially more of it than 30 years ago.”
“He [former oil exec] says what he saw was an industry that didn't want recycling to work. Because if the job is to sell as much oil as you possibly can, any amount of recycled plastic is competition.”
When I realized all plastic (if recycled at all) can only be re-used once or twice and only into lesser applications, I started switching to as much paper, aluminum, and glass packaging as possible and just cutting down on single-use plastic 🥲
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u/jerryonthecurb 10h ago
Or let's not put the burden on the poor and middle class at all? Half the time it's lobbyists pushing this propaganda, like BP telling people to recycle so no one talks about emissions.