Recycling is a toxic lie.
Big brands and petrochemical corporations keep selling the public a convenient and comforting story to hide the hard truth: they simply have to STOP PRODUCING SO MUCH PLASTIC.
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@greenpeace Penn & Teller did a segment of their show, "Bullsh!t" on this. "Litterbug", and the weeping Chief were all part of a PR campaign because one of the states was pushing legislation making Coca-Cola (and others, presumably) responsible for the results of switching away from glass.
@greenpeace *plastic.
You mean recycling plastic. Aluminum, cardboard good. Plastic bad.
@greenpeace Little typo, I guess. *Plastic recycling* not recycling in general. Glass, metal, paper, fabrics and a lot of organic material can be recycled in good ways ...
@greenpeace please stop spreading this 'plastic in testicles' BS.
Could you update the post to say 'plastics recycling is a toxic lie'?
Plenty of materials are beneficially recyclable.
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@greenpeace it isn't in the planet's interest to spread misinformation.
I've been a chemical engineer for the better part of a decade and plastic recycling is definitely both chemically and financially feasible. I've worked on this myself. It will, however, take huge amounts of investment and a couple decades.
This doesn't take away from the fact that we need companies to stop producing virgin plastic.
It's literally in the slogan "reduce, reuse, recycle" - reducing is the first priority.
Plastic recycling is like CCS, a lie to keep profits rolling in - without adapting.
Trump and his idiotic #tariffs oddly present a future opportunity—post Trump.
An #importtariff on #plasticpackaging raw or applied, by weight.
On every other county. Every product.
Defray the costs of remediation, disposal or reuse.
Declare it as a national emergency honestly this time.
@greenpeace ugh. Why are Greenpeace so bad at messaging?
"Recycling is a toxic lie."
NO IT ISN'T! Plastic recycling is a toxic lie. Aluminium, Steel, cardboard, and glass recycling is definitely not a toxic lie; quite the contrary.
You want to know how to encourage the average person to dump everything in the trash, including aluminium, steel, e-waste, used motor oil, waste solvents, etc...? You tell them that "Recycling is a toxic lie".
Greenpeace has been a net negative for every cause it espouses for decades now.
@greenpeace That's why i'm still a fan of glass bottles and metal cans. Both are 100% recycleable.
@greenpeace Plastic is shit, yes. But it's not the only material used to make envelopes that is sent to recycling. Glass, paper and brass have no major problems being recycled. Food scraps are converted into compost.
I'm not going to stop separation of trash just because plastics are hard to recycle. There's a ton of investigation to improve the recycling process of plastics.
What I do is reduce the consumption of plastic.
@greenpeace I chuck my plastic waste in the recycling bin just because it's too much to fit the regular bin. I hate this.
@greenpeace worryingly oil company lobbying has worked at EU policy level, with themed research topics for plastic recycling prioritised over research into bio-based packaging.
@greenpeace They’ve got to stop producing plastic- period.
#JustStopOil
@greenpeace asking corporations to behave Better as like asking to a serial killer to stop killing.
We must Push over government to approve laws to ban plastics for several usage (bottles, bags, packaging..) when I was young plastics didn't exist as today and we lived good.
We had glass for wine and refill, a lot of foods were packed with paper, we drank public water.
We were used to but food day by day, without throwing away expired goods.
The only way is a law
whoa, you just dropped a truth bomb harder than a brined gherkin at a slumber party! let’s GET REAL—less plastic, more PICKLE POWER. we gotta change the game!
Obviously they're not going to, and obviously plastic recycling works (recycled plastics are widely used in many different products), so what is the point in suggesting that consumers shouldn't recycle plastic because "recycling is a lie." This is demonstrably false, and it leads people to discard recyclable material, and it supports the anti-environmentalists who try to malign all recycling.
@greenpeace we need to stop producing plastic from oil completely. I see no harm in recycling packaging (that would become less if plastic becomes more expensive). But things that are produced to break and single use items that don't get repaired should stop.
It is actually the same strategy being applied to CO2.
@greenpeace ask #tetrapac they should know
@greenpeace I genuinely wonder whether it's better NOT to recycle plastic, since the plastics will ultimately leach into the ground when containment efforts degrade - rather than being released as toxic fumes into the air near human habitations?
(It's also my understanding that recycling steel, aluminum, glass and paper *does* conserve a lot of resources and decrease environmental impact, can you confirm?)
@greenpeace Agree with gist, but what to make of this?
(From a fan of #WillemDafoe, hoping he's on board:)
https://practicalaction.org/news-stories/turning-river-rubbish-into-money-in-bangladesh/
Ehm, why should it not be chemically feasible? I can see the financial argument. But chemically it should always be possible?!?