I just do it to help the people that makes a buck recollecting re-usable garbage like plastic bottles and plastic stuff in general
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It's not bad to do. We probably even need to be doing it.
It's just like putting a band-aid on a papercut while the three inch radius hole in your chest sprays blood
Yes it's true, but to me it's not mind, time or physically consuming to throw on the right bin
Yeah if it's exactly zero effort it's fine, but asking others or shaming them for not is counterproductive.
Unless you think you can somehow reason with billionaires¹ there us precisely one way out and we need to stop pretending anything else will help until that is done.
If you are not a killer, you are not helping the climate.
¹you can't. People have tried and it did not go well. That's why we have such a bunker boom!)
Regular recycling isn't even an option where I live. You can literally only get a regular trash container. Sticks/leaves etc they'll take if you bring it to a center but there's no collection for that either.
Also pick up that can
Don't use whataboutism to shirk your responsibilities. Recycling properly is a good and necessary thing. Though it'd be more effective to create less waste in the first place.
Trash recycling is a scam advertised by plastics companies so they wouldn't be regulated by tricking gullible people like you. Most trash that is "recycled" is put into a landfill with no processing.
It's not "more effective", producing less waste would be the only solution. Which we aren't doing because, again, plastics companies paid for decades of propaganda.
Liberals love to not solve problems and then throw themselves dramatically onto phrases like "whataboutism".
Most trash that is "recycled" is put into a landfill with no processing.
I wouldn't say most trash, just most plastics. Glass and especially cardboard and aluminum are able to be recycled almost endlessly and are more efficient to recycle than their original production cost.
They are able to, that doesn't mean they are. I cannot find any data on residential recycling rates, and I have to assume, given the track record, that capitalist countries are doing the most wasteful thing that is the worst for the environment.
For cardboard and especially aluminum/copper there's actually a pretty compelling profit insensitive for recycling them. For glass, it kinda depends on your locality.
Recycling properly is a good and necessary thing.
Recycling plastic is mostly bollocks by numbers. To go by EU figures at best slightly over half of it even is recycled, of which 35% is thermically recycled i.e. burned. Another 1,3 Million tonnes which I can't be arsed to manually calculate the numbers for get "shipped for processing" i.e. end up in a landfill / ocean / slum someplace else.
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