• brrt@lemm.ee
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    1 day ago

    Worked in an European Recycling Center and this is exactly it. In my case, Austria, we’re collecting the trash sending it 2 or times around in the country before burning it. And then we call it recycling. Wondering why our beloved mountains shrink every year.

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      At least burning it generates energy and if you do it right it releases minimal byproducts besides CO2 the real problem is just dumping it in the ocean/landfills that slowly wear down and end up inside our bodies

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        too complicated,

        why not use the current system where you sell the garbage to the poorest countries for them to just dump it in the sea/rivers/unregulated burning…