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[–] 8 points 1 year ago (4 children)

The latter half of your comment is why I dont even bother. The "recycling" here is picked up and dumped into the same truck, there is no separation facility, just a landfill/incinerator.

Im not paying extra to lie to myself.

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  • i lost faith in recycling the more I read about it.

    especially when most recycling is sent to poor countries to be burned, and if it is actually recycled it is then shipped back again as a single use spoon, then sent back... all the way to less quality materials, and some uses are for fleece that produces a shit ton of microplastics.

    real solutions is to ban single use plastics (maybe exceptions for medical uses).

    now I'm in the States and I have no idea how to recycle where I am anyways.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    We have separate trucks here, but I was behind the recycling truck one day and watched it pull into the landfill.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I remember my home district had one spot that handled both trash and recycling, so maybe there’s a chance of it still getting somewhere useful.

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