None of this knowledge is a reason to not use recycling when it is available. When you have a waste bin and a recycling bin and just put plastics in the waste, that’s a douche move.
Yes. Its worldwide. And its good a few countries take it serious. But in the states, pratically all waste services that offer a reycling bin… plastics all get loaded up and sent straight to a landfill. Its purely optics.
5% worldwide? It absolutely matters where you live. Look at progressive countries and you will see that it is not that low a percentage when people actually make an effort: https://www.scb.se/en/finding-statistics/statistics-by-subject-area/environment/waste/waste-packaging/pong/tables-and-graphs/recycling-targets/
None of this knowledge is a reason to not use recycling when it is available. When you have a waste bin and a recycling bin and just put plastics in the waste, that’s a douche move.
Yes. Its worldwide. And its good a few countries take it serious. But in the states, pratically all waste services that offer a reycling bin… plastics all get loaded up and sent straight to a landfill. Its purely optics.