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[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

Honestly I constantly get home and go to take out my keys and remember like 3 pieces of trash in there...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

You’re very welcome.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago

Sometimes I find garbage in my pockets from months ago :)

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago

I like to go the extra mile by washing and drying my trash before throwing it away. Paper products unfortunately don't do well in the process and i have to retrieve the from the lint screen.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Sure, it's only garbage people who litter. But don't forget that it was lobby of the plastic industry who overemphasized the waste and recycling system as a solution to pollution, as opposed to reducing consumption.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (2 children)

I mean, yes, reducing and reusing are more important.

But in the end if we didn't recycle, we would eventually run out of resources.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

You're not going to like to learn what the actual statistics are of how much of what we recycle actually gets recycled.

Now, people are fucked up right now in that if you say "X isn't as effective as you think it is" everyone's first reply is always "WHY ARE YOU SAYING NOT TO X!!" so just everyone... calm tf down.

Keep recycling, but can we PLEASE put pressure on our elected representatives that we don't want to have babies made of microplastics so demand that they uphold environmental regulations in their district. Demand more robust investment in recycling, demand incentives to make alternatives to plastics. Demand money be spent where you want it spent, and FURTHERMORE you can actually donate to the institutions of your choice and have that donation tax deducted and get the state to pay for the things you want either way.

There are smarter ways to do all this, just don't think "I did my part, I don't need to do any more." You don't get out of responsibility here, I don't care that you didn't ask to be here, get to work!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

Well, only some plastics can be recycled, and not very well at that. Plastic manufacturers have known this for 50+ years and never told us.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 months ago

In all fairness. It's nice to have clean spaces as well.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

My back right pocket has seen a lot of snotty tissues. I wash my jeans maybe twice a year.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 months ago

There may be a smell that you are not aware of.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

And I throw that trash in the garbage collector truck which goes around the town, out of it, into a landfill and stuffs it there. I hate living in a 3rd world country.

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