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Originally Posted by Azure
No, the issue is we keep sending all our plastic waste to other countries and have terrible recycling policies in general.
But hey, at least we use paper straws so plastic problem solved.
I would say we should look at successful European models when it comes to recycling and what not, but we refuse to do that for health care, which is far more costly, so I'd imagine it won't happen with recycling either.
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Production of single use plastics from manufacturing ethylene has the equivalent GHG emissions of 45 million passenger vehicles a year. Recyling the product that comes at the backend of that manufacturing does not do much in terms of reducing GHG's. Canada had 35.7 million passenger vehicles in 2018. But it is all about paper straws.