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i dont get it. they say that recycling is too expensive... so we as tax paying humans have subsidized huge parts of the recycling process...
it sounds like we just need to make new plastic a less viable alternative. tax new plastics like cigarettes? a corporate sin tax?
You've been lied to. Recycling plastic was never about saving the planet. It was too get consumers to be okay polluting with plastic. That isn't changing. Recycling plastic is not the answer. It never was. The oil lobby spent millions to trick you into using plastic.
The article says that new recycling processes just create other pollution.
To solve this, we stop using petroleum based plastic.
right, and how do we go about motivating humans to stop doing bad things? we tax the fuck out of them. money is the only language.
it doesnt have to be 'all or nothing'... thats just not how progress happens.
Refuse, Reuse, Riot.
Recycling should've always been accounted for in the cost of making plastics. Instead of handing it on a consumer tax level, the manufacturer should eat the cost of recycling and just raise the price of plastics to what they would be when accounting for a full lifecycle.