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Guess what % of plastics have ever been recycled? (piefed.social)

submitted 9 months ago by rimu@piefed.social to c/environment@beehaw.org

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And they knew all along - https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/feb/15/recycling-plastics-producers-report

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[–] princessnorah@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 8 months ago

They say 3.4% of greenhouse gas emissions from plastics which is nothing. We do need to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by like 80% but not to 0.

Personally I’d rather save that last 20% for important things like being able to escape earth’s gravity well, rather than dumb shit like single-use plastics. Maybe that’s just me ¯\_(ツ)_/¯