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In think plastic recycling is true and makes sense to do. I do it every week. However, all the plastic users need to act to limit it's use to functionality based requirements....can anything at all be used instead of plastic in this situation??? There's like 0 need to use plastic to box and ship things. Are you shipping an optic? Glass? A large flat TV? Okay there you should use plastics. Those plastics could be reusable first but also recyclable and the people selling the TV should be responsible for paying for the packaging to eventually get recycled. A watermelon 🍉 is way more fragile than a TV and we don't box those things. Only Costco has the brains to box fruit individually. That's just a waste.

Plastic recycling is a farce to make it appear as a “personal responsibility” issue.

Notice also how the labeling for plastics uses a sign that looks remarkably similar to a recycling logo - whether that specific type of plastic is actually recyclable or not.

It is all a public relation campaign, because fundamentally plastic is unsustainable and harmful. Governments have collectively shat the bed by placing the burden of dealing with plastic on the consumer. (This is very similar to the “carbon footprint” idea - which was a creation of the oil industry.)

I toured the place where my city collects its plastic recycling - the director in charge was very open about the fact that most of it isn’t used and can’t really be used anyway.

Significantly reducing our reliance on plastics cannot be taken on as a single issue or at the local or even national level.

Plastics are a byproduct of the fossil fuel industry.

That’s the only reason materials which were marketed to people as miraculous in the 40s, 50s and 60s are so cheap.

The extraction industry is global, and the production of plastics is as well.

Even if one nation reduced its fossil fuel and plastic consumption significantly, there will be other nations that will take the opportunity to get that cheap energy, materials and industry.

I mean, i get it, recycled plastic is harder to handle, etc. etc. But burning them for energy is no business?

Put a per gram tax on every manufactured product and watch how companies magically find alternative materials/methods to make goods.

We need to put some of these CEOs on trial like we did with the Nazi's hopefully all of them will get their just punishment.

Use to make machines for the plastic industry. None of them wanted tp use recycled plastic, because raw plastic pellets were cheaper and recycled plastic was harsher on the machines.

Don't worry, the industry wants looser rules on what can be considered recyclable. They want to be able to label things as recyclable even if the majority of people do not have access to a recycling facility that can recycle it. Fuck them. Honestly, we should force them to be the ones to recycle the plastic if they want to label it as recyclable.

"Most US voters say" AKA Not Gonna Happen.

But the Republicans are going to vote for the guy who will sell them down the river Jan 20st 2025.

Fucking.

Morons.

All companies should be required to recycle their own products. No.. not via contracts with 3rd parties. Products go back up through the sales channels untill they reach the manufacturers.

If you don't have an idea how your products end of life works, you cannot sell or manufacture it.

Solves e-waste, plastic, chemicals.. a lot of the god awful stuff.