Recycling Doesn’t Work—and the Plastics Industry Knew It: The industry knew decades ago that recycling was never viable in the long term, and now we’re all being poisoned by its product.
by thenewrepublic
Recycling Doesn’t Work—and the Plastics Industry Knew It: The industry knew decades ago that recycling was never viable in the long term, and now we’re all being poisoned by its product.
by thenewrepublic
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It should be a national scandal that the companies responsible for the microplastics in our bodies have cooked up one of the most successful, destructive lies in U.S. environmental history.
*Animal Agriculture:* ***“Hold my beer”.***
*Plastics recycling* doesn’t work. Aluminum and uncoated cardboard are still both energetically profitable to recycle, and financially profitable for municipalities to recycle.
I consume with an eye to this, minimizing single use plastics that come into my home where possible. Yes, its weird buying wine in an aluminum can, but some are fine.
So another major industry sold our future for profit. Remind me why people don’t trust corporations again? Lmao