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How Recycling Has Become a Largely Empty Gesture (www.nakedcapitalism.com)

submitted 4 months ago by Five@slrpnk.net to c/environment@beehaw.org

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[–] Butterbee@beehaw.org 29 points 4 months ago (1 children)

It was always an empty gesture designed from the start to put the onus on the general population so that plastic could still be produced and sold at ever increasing rates without any responsibility for its outcome. This is also why the least effective part of reduce, reuse, recycle was always emphasized.

[–] BurningRiver@beehaw.org 6 points 4 months ago

Hear hear