Giving consumers a choice to recycle to better the environment doesn't work and is dumb. Evidently, if I want to stop plastic pollution, I need to carefully sort my plastics, but only certain types with my garbage service. This ends up being about half of my purchases. The other half of plastics just go into my garbage bin for landfill. Nevermind the plastic number on each item.

Same with batteries! Everybody is just tossing them. I'm suppose to put tape in the ends and put them in a zip lock. People are not going to do this.

We need laws for the source of the issue instead of these fake fixes that rely on the consumer to "do good" that didn't work.

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[–] 7 points 2 months ago

It doesn't even matter.

My entire state of individual people could recycle to high hell and it wouldn't offset the corporations and data centers.

And in some cities in the state I live, they can't process the recycling fast enough so it ends up in landfill anyway.

We need to hold the biggest contributors to the fire. That is the best use of our time and energy.

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