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Originally Posted by CliffFletcher
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.’
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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More of a political/collection than a people issue. I suspect if they told people to just throw out their plastic waste people would want less of it. By having you put it in a blue box you think something good is coming of it unless you follow the news closely.