• TheOakTree@lemm.ee
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    1 day ago

    We need to make it financially feasible to properly recycle plastics by making it so damn expensive for companies to be wasteful with plastics. Among many other things, of course.

    I doubt it will happen in our lifetimes, though.

    • TonyTonyChopper
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      17 hours ago

      The true long term solution is eliminating plastic. Back in the iron age there were glass bottles used to distribute milk and they were returned to be used again. Of course this system is more complicated and expensive than trucking in oil and turning it into single use containers so it’ll never happen before the world is burned.