Even after finding out that Recycling is mostly bullshit? You still do it? I mean, I’d do it if I could ensure it was actually happening, but in most places it simply doesn’t and goes to the landfill anyhow.
You utterly skipped over the part where I claimed that I’m a “re-user is better than recycling?” Why? Just to take a dig at recyclers? On a joke comment?
I have to give it to you: you’re committed to your crusade, that’s for sure.
Recycling itself isn’t mostly bullshit, plastic recycling is bullshit. If you look into it, most mass-produced products made of “recycled” plastics are actually made from in-factory plastic waste, which companies do for literally everything since it’s just a waste of money not to use offcuts in the next batch of pretty much anything. Now, instead of just mixing those offcuts into new batches, they simply hold onto them until they have enough for a whole batch, and now they can legally call the product “made of 100% recycled material” even though it’s still essentially made of virgin plastic. Paper, glass, and aluminum are all pretty heavily recycled in most places.
Cut plastic out of any facet of your life that you can, but it’s such a small amount of plastic compared to corporations, even in places you wouldn’t expect. Honestly anyone whose worked in the backroom of a grocery/department store knows just how much plastic goes into wrapping pallets to be stored on shelves, only to have throw that plastic away the next day for stocking, then re-wrapped again.
To add to that; paper recycling is pretty damn good too. I try to buy products that use paper/cardboard packaging and products that use recycled paper.
I thought they don’t really recycle a lot of paper goods from residential waste streams due to contamination (grease and the like)…? That’s why direct-ship companies are worse for the environment than big box retailers (also the fact that they get them in big boxes rather than a tiny box just for you)
Personally I just save all my paper products (except highly inked or laminated) and grow mushrooms on them. Free food rather than landfill, the ultimate recycle.
Oysters love cardboard and paper, or basically any wood product. Most other fungus does not take to it as readily, so it’s a really easy culture to keep going :)
Even after finding out that Recycling is mostly bullshit? You still do it? I mean, I’d do it if I could ensure it was actually happening, but in most places it simply doesn’t and goes to the landfill anyhow.
You utterly skipped over the part where I claimed that I’m a “re-user is better than recycling?” Why? Just to take a dig at recyclers? On a joke comment?
I have to give it to you: you’re committed to your crusade, that’s for sure.
Recycling itself isn’t mostly bullshit, plastic recycling is bullshit. If you look into it, most mass-produced products made of “recycled” plastics are actually made from in-factory plastic waste, which companies do for literally everything since it’s just a waste of money not to use offcuts in the next batch of pretty much anything. Now, instead of just mixing those offcuts into new batches, they simply hold onto them until they have enough for a whole batch, and now they can legally call the product “made of 100% recycled material” even though it’s still essentially made of virgin plastic. Paper, glass, and aluminum are all pretty heavily recycled in most places.
Cut plastic out of any facet of your life that you can, but it’s such a small amount of plastic compared to corporations, even in places you wouldn’t expect. Honestly anyone whose worked in the backroom of a grocery/department store knows just how much plastic goes into wrapping pallets to be stored on shelves, only to have throw that plastic away the next day for stocking, then re-wrapped again.
Glass and metal recycling do happen as far as I know but yeah plastics is mostly bs
To add to that; paper recycling is pretty damn good too. I try to buy products that use paper/cardboard packaging and products that use recycled paper.
I thought they don’t really recycle a lot of paper goods from residential waste streams due to contamination (grease and the like)…? That’s why direct-ship companies are worse for the environment than big box retailers (also the fact that they get them in big boxes rather than a tiny box just for you)
Personally I just save all my paper products (except highly inked or laminated) and grow mushrooms on them. Free food rather than landfill, the ultimate recycle.
Oysters love cardboard and paper, or basically any wood product. Most other fungus does not take to it as readily, so it’s a really easy culture to keep going :)
Despite doing recycling where I live, they explicitly do not recycle glass. Safety hazard, maybe?