• LineNoise@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    Unless we standardise on a single formulation of soft plastic, recycling it seems doomed.

    Prohibiting it being used in the first place seems like it might actually be the simpler task.

    • Rusty Raven @aussie.zone
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      1 year ago

      Reducing how much is used in the first place should always have been the priority. But businesses hate the idea of any message to use less of something. So they lobby for things like recycling to be pushed instead, because that both focuses the attention on the behaviour of individuals instead of them, and allows them to keep selling more. And people in general seem to be more than happy to believe that recycling magically fixes the waste problem so that they can keep buying their convenient single use products and not have to do arduous things like remember their own shopping bags.