Well put!
Islets throughout the Asian Pacific archipelagos are loaded with mountains of plastics, probably dumped by Chinese or Russian Mafias. Leaching into the food chain.
Yes. We’ve know... Since the BS started...
Glass? Paper? Wood? Plant fiber based cellulose? Those are relatively easy to compost, break down, or otherwise reuse...
Plastics? Not so much. That’s why China just dumps it in the ocean...
One word, plastics…
On the other hand they are great fuel sources.
Yet another “Green Energy” hoax.
By the way, again, what exactly is fossil fuel? Everybody keeps using this term. According to estimates I have seen, from 1969 to 2018, a fifty-year span, the world has consumed 1.306 trillion barrels of oil. Over 1.3 trillion barrels are estimated to have been used, just since 1969. About how many dinosaurs where there roaming the earth? Hint: there is no such thing as fossil fuel.
Bring back the giant incinerators. Take all of your trash there and just throw it in. Watch the smoke go up. It’s a better way.
Same with Hershey bars -- they were in simple foil-lined paper that slid into a paper sleeve. Today they are packaged in impossible-to-open plastic packaging.
I remember my Dad's "Veto" deodorant which came in a squat, white glass jar with a metal lid.
My Opa gave my dad his WW I safety razor blade sharpener. It was back in the era of the first safety razors with disposable blades (at least they were steel).
I bought my first outdoors water bottle around 1973. It was plastic with a simple screw-on top, but I used it thousands of times refilling from water fountains and spigots.
Of course, I'd be happy with the old black desk phone with the tangled cords.
Bookmark.
A couple of nukes and it will be vaporized
90% of “recycing” is about behavior control.
They may not be able to be turned into other plastics, but they can still be turned in asphalt.
All plastics can be recycled using pyrolysis, which a company in Kansas did for awhile. But the procedure is much more expensive per barrel of oil than drilling.
But, if you really want to get rid of plastic, that is the way.
Who will be in their death bed wishing they spent more time sorting their garbage. I watch a friend who washes cans and bottles like regular dishes before tossing them in to the recycle bin. The most precious commodity we have is time. I for one am not wasting any of my time worrying about putting a piece of trash in the bin.
Metal is the only thing we can actually recycle.
This has been known for over fifty years when recycling got started. I remember hippies pushing the recycle hype back then, so people started separating colored and clear glass, paper, plastic. then after the pickup, they were followed and it was found they went to the trash dump and all that separated material were dumped together and buried.
More Horsepuckey from Horsepuckey Central.
The Earth is a giant recycling center
I remember when the Deepwater Horizon oil spill occurred. There were ‘scientists’ who tried to questimate the total amount of oil that was released into the Gulf. After they determined an amount, they set off to find the huge underwater and surface oil. There was much less than expected. What real scientists found were huuuuge plumes of microorganisms that eat, yes eat, oil. A massive (more than huuuuge) amount of oil naturally seeps into the oceans from the ocean floor. IT’S PART OF THE EARTH. It is food for some parts of the Earth.
A quick search finds much information on our little buddies that dine on petroleum and plastic.
“”Natural and synthetic plastics are degraded by the action of microorganisms including bacteria, actinomycetes, and fungi (Ishigaki et al., 2004; Alshehrei, 2017).””
Used paper bags for decades.
Eco-nuts: “save the trees”
Presto: plastic
Almost any plastic will burn. They can always be used as fuel of some kind.