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Originally Posted by PepsiFree
A dopamine hit from putting a piece of plastic in the blue bin?
You know what, I've changed my mind, we can't legalize hard drugs. People are out here addicted to basic recycling.
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So I guess we can just chalk it up to ignorance then. Because household recycling doesn’t achieve what people think (or want to think) it achieves. As GGG notes, the vast majority of the stuff we put in blue bins winds up in the same landfills as garbage.
The CBC doesn’t use the term ‘dopamine hit’, and instead calls recycling a ‘salve to the conscience.’
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Given that Canadians produce close to a tonne of waste per capita every year, it's a salve to the conscience to think that we can put some of our waste into a blue bin, and it will be transformed into something useful instead of being dumped in a landfill.
The reality is not so reassuring. In Canada, for example, only nine per cent of plastic waste is recycled. Mountains of material collected in blue bins is piling up in landfills, being incinerated, or adding to the swirling islands of plastic flotsam that are choking oceans and killing wildlife. According to some experts, recycling is in crisis.
https://www.cbc.ca/radio/sunday/the-...cled-1.5099103
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Plastic ‘recycling’ was already questionable when it was being shipped to China to dispose of. Now that they’re no longer accepting it, plastic recycling is pretty much a fraud.
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As municipalities are forced to deal with their own trash instead of exporting it, they are discovering a dismaying fact: much of this plastic is completely unrecyclable.
The issue is with a popular class of plastics that people have traditionally been told to put into their recycling bins – a hodgepodge of items such as clamshell-style food packaging, black plastic trays, take-out containers and cold drink cups, which the industry dubs “mixed plastic”. It has become clear that there are virtually no domestic manufacturers that want to buy this waste in order to turn it into something else.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/...ling-landfills
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