• FireRetardant@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    What bothers me is some of my friends heard about plastic recycling being fake and immediately assume all recycling is fake. So now they don’t even try to recycle normal cardboards, papers, and metals because “recycling is a myth”.

    • ℍ𝕂-𝟞𝟝@sopuli.xyz
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      2 months ago

      That’s what happens when people get lied to, they stop believing everything, not just the lies.

      Lying to the public does insane damage.

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      2 months ago

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      Plastic recycling isn’t fake. It’s often not been economical, so it often doesn’t make any sense to do it. But you can recycle plastics.

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        It isnt fake, but a lot of the plastic in the blue box never gets recycled. And many plastics are mixed which makes them difficult to recycle. Many can also only be recycled once or twice and still be usefull.