So many of you folks have been trying to do the right thing and diligently saving your plastic items for recycling, separating the different kinds of plastics from each other. Well, guess what. You're wasting your fucking time.
Of the seven recycling classifications for plastic materials, only two of them are deemed usable by the plastic recyclers in the USA. The rest of it ends up sent to countries like China who burn it unsafely as fuel (making some serious pollution) or they recycle it in a crude and unsafe manner and send it right back to us in the form of all their crappy toxic products.
Failing that, it just gets dumped in landfills. After all your hard work trying to separate your trash for recycling bins.
And what about the two types of plastic that did get recycled? Mostly they get made into plastic bags, which starts the whole problem all over again.
The answer to the plastics problem is not recycling. Recycling plastics keeps them around and that's not a good thing. Since we know plastics outgas chemicals and are mucking around with our health even in a optimum situation, we don't want them around at all, recycled or not.
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very good point--the problem is at large plastic itself. if only the mass were getting this message, or if only they cared.
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