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Im old enough to remember foil and paper wrappers. Im old enough to remember wax paper.
It all comes in plastic now.
Get a bag and put every piece of plastic for your week in it. Bottles, wrappers... bring it all home. The ammount of it is obscene.
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Or aluminum recycling, crazy efficient compared to making new aluminum.
I am not so sure about this. Do you have any sources? I think I read that it's difficult due to the abundance of very different aluminium alloys.
Ignoring gold, platinum, and silver, copper comes in quite high, followed by aluminum and then at the bottom is steel and iron.
Most places will pay you over the CRV for aluminum cans, and they will usually also pay for bulk aluminum, more than they'd pay for steel or cast iron.
thinking about how this works, it just astounds me how clever and creative it is from the industry standpoint. capture a word, then redefine it to conform to an existing effort. Modern recycling transfers plastic waste away from capitalisms best consumers (the west) and burdens it upon its least visible (the third world.) Its like a black hole for all the immediate problems of the indelible hell you've created. in el…
Single use plastic bags were banned here. Two things happened as a result - the plastic thickness was increased so they can call them reusable instead of single use, and stores started charging for them. Instead of reducing plastic waste it had the opposite effect.
If individuals can't be bothered with simple things like this, is there really any hope that any law will help?
thinking about how this works, it just astounds me how clever and creative it is from the industry standpoint. capture a word, then redefine it to conform to an existing effort. Modern recycling transfers plastic waste away from capitalisms best consumers (the west) and burdens it upon its least visible (the third world.) Its like a black hole for all the immediate problems of the indelible hell you've created. in el…
Single use plastic bags were banned here. Two things happened as a result - the plastic thickness was increased so they can call them reusable instead of single use, and stores started charging for them. Instead of reducing plastic waste it had the opposite effect.
And to back up my claim: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/jul/31/governme...
"Supermarket plastic bag charge has led to 98% drop in use in England, data shows"
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Or aluminum recycling, crazy efficient compared to making new aluminum.
I am not so sure about this. Do you have any sources? I think I read that it's difficult due to the abundance of very different aluminium alloys.
https://international-aluminium.org/new-iai-study-reveals-en...
I call it bullshit. PET used in plastic bottles can easily be depolymerized or even used as fuel. I live in a poor ex-USSR republic, and plastic recycling is a popular business; it were a scam no one would do that, as government neither mandate nor sponsor recycling.
I just ate a package of crackers. Plastic. I ordered a product from amazon, retail packed in plastic and cardboard. I got an amp, the box liner, plastic. The amazon box, had plastic bubbles in it.
I'm willing to bet most oof that ends up in a land fill and not recycled here in the states.
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Or glass, or paper, and almost all types of metal.
Unfortunately glass isn’t recycled here. I’ve been trying to figure out why. Probably more common in places that have glass production.
The best thing for glass is reuse.
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Probably because its easy to do with a magnet so someone must be doing it already
Aluminum is not magnetic
https://www.recyclingtoday.com/article/magnetic-equipment-gu...