• jol@discuss.tchncs.de
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    4 days ago

    In some places there’s really no recycling. For example, islands where recycling would mean shipping plastics to the mainland. They just burn it instead - if you’re lucky, for producing heating or electricity.

    • Clent@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      Sure but there is danger is telling people to not bother recycling. Even a location as you described since it could become possible in the future and it’s actually better for it to be shipped off than buried. Keeping plastic out of the environment is not a waste of fuel.

      The focus should be a return to glass bottles that are reused. This was still a thing into the 90’s in my area.