Plastic recycling is a PR campaign to relieve our guilt about single-use plastics and keep consuming. In reality: 95% of plastic is trashed. The oil and gas industry knew widespread plastic recycling was never feasible back in the 70’s but keep up the narrative.
It’s all trash, the recycled plastic is good for less than nothing, as it frees masses of chemical additives that aren’t well regulated or even known in the process, and they can’t use it for basically anything.
They had documents from their internal communications at the oil companies leak I think about manufacturing this whole recycling thing to shift the blame onto us, and we all bought into it, I remember them pushing this hard in elementary school. Reduce, Reuse, recycle, which ok, that’s all fine and well, but we are living in a society run by people forcing us into wasteful lifestyles.
There’s a learning there. Corporations haven’t done that only once, it’s their mode of operation. The food pyramid? Sugar vs Fat? Personal carbon footprint?
It’s all mostly lies (international differences may apply) created by small groups to make money (big surprise there).
The biggest mistake we made is personifying companies and removing people from accountability.
Plastic recycling is a PR campaign to relieve our guilt about single-use plastics and keep consuming. In reality: 95% of plastic is trashed. The oil and gas industry knew widespread plastic recycling was never feasible back in the 70’s but keep up the narrative.
It’s all trash, the recycled plastic is good for less than nothing, as it frees masses of chemical additives that aren’t well regulated or even known in the process, and they can’t use it for basically anything.
They had documents from their internal communications at the oil companies leak I think about manufacturing this whole recycling thing to shift the blame onto us, and we all bought into it, I remember them pushing this hard in elementary school. Reduce, Reuse, recycle, which ok, that’s all fine and well, but we are living in a society run by people forcing us into wasteful lifestyles.
There’s a learning there. Corporations haven’t done that only once, it’s their mode of operation. The food pyramid? Sugar vs Fat? Personal carbon footprint?
It’s all mostly lies (international differences may apply) created by small groups to make money (big surprise there).
The biggest mistake we made is personifying companies and removing people from accountability.