It’s been debunked multiple times over the last quarter century. Every time people kinda forget because it feels like recycling should be a good thing, and everyone just goes back to pretending it is. ☹️
The article makes other points, such as that using plastic is more environmentally friendly most of the time (I am not convinced they use a broad enough definition though, as they only consider transport fuel usage and energy costs of creating glass or cardboard), and that recycling plastics is possible and valid an we have the technology to do this well but we just, well, don’t do it well.
It’s been debunked multiple times over the last quarter century. Every time people kinda forget because it feels like recycling should be a good thing, and everyone just goes back to pretending it is. ☹️
“Doing our part while fixing their part” includes “doing our part”.
Don’t mistake ‘enabling adequacy in others’ with ‘pretending [recycling] is [a good thing].’
The article makes other points, such as that using plastic is more environmentally friendly most of the time (I am not convinced they use a broad enough definition though, as they only consider transport fuel usage and energy costs of creating glass or cardboard), and that recycling plastics is possible and valid an we have the technology to do this well but we just, well, don’t do it well.