And it ain't gonna change. As of this week, I've given up on my personal environmental conservation. Separating my recycling does nothing useful when it's so far outweighed by this.
this post was submitted on 07 Nov 2024
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Separating my recycling does nothing useful when it's so far outweighed by this.
Separating your recycling never did anything useful, that was a convenient lie we were told to sell us on plastics.
That isn't even true. Just because plastic isn't as recyclable as they claim doesn't mean you should throw your cardboard, paper and metal into your garbage. Recycling isn't just plastic, it's also compost metal and cardboard and glass.
Just to stop recycling because some rich wankers need to jet around the planet or people need to fly around the globe for instagram likes is just dumb. It's not even hard work, it's just a thing that you do. You can also shit in the sink, it goes in the same pipe, that doesn't mean it's a good idea.
What aboot paper tho :/
Single-stream is great from an effort perspective, if you believe the lies, but much is just diverted to the landfill or plastic bundled up in bales for some magic future when it might be recyclable. As others mentioned though, aluminum (and glass) for the win.
They don't care. They can afford to survive anything bad that might happen.
They think they can....
I don't know, a well-stocked bunker and some armed AI security drones will let them ride things out for quite a while.
Sounds like a fun existence. And when they exit, they will see that it was not worth it and regret their decisions. Hahahahah, that was a joke, they have no empathy for their fellow human beings - they'll regret not gathering more power/money.
Let's turn them all into artificial reefs