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Eugen Rochko
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AmpBenzScientist

@Gargron China also stopped accepting America's plastic for recycling.

8 Oct 2020 at 3:50 | Open on qoto.org
nighthacker2003

@Gargron
"Reduce, reuse, recycle"
Recycle is last for a reason. People often forget that.

8 Oct 2020 at 5:33 | Open on mastodon.social
Rysiekúr Memesson

@Gargron yeah. I found this to be a pretty good take on recycling and climate change:
theguardian.com/environment/tr

" Neoliberalism has conned us into fighting climate change as individuals"

8 Oct 2020 at 10:38 | Open on mastodon.social
Sree Krishna Raja

@Gargron Bio-Degradable plastics are good for the environment and can solve this problem. However Oxy-degradable plastics are also marketed and sold as bio degradable plastics.

Bio degradable plastics are created from biologically sourced materials. Oxy degradable plastics are regular plastics with additives which helps the plastic to degrade when exposed to sunlight and oxygen.

Unlike Bio degradable plastics, oxy degradable plastics exist as micro plastic after breaking.

8 Oct 2020 at 12:29 | Open on mastodon.social
hrx

@Gargron
Recently I bought a packet of sliced semi hard cheese.

Wrapped in plastic, laid on a plastic tray inside (why?), and in between the slices, a thin plastic film (wtf?). Puzzled, I looked for the recycling marks: PE - wrapper, PVC - tray, EVOH? Film, probably.

EVOH is difficult to make and expensive, usually not or only slowly biodegradable, difficult to recycle and "on the upside does not produce toxic or harmful by-products when properly incinerated".

Wasteful, did not buy it again.

@Gargron
Recently I bought a packet of sliced semi hard cheese.

Wrapped in plastic, laid on a plastic tray inside (why?), and in between the slices, a thin plastic film (wtf?). Puzzled, I looked for the recycling marks: PE - wrapper, PVC - tray, EVOH? Film, probably.

EVOH is difficult to make and expensive, usually not or only slowly biodegradable, difficult to recycle and "on the upside does not produce toxic or harmful by-products when properly incinerated".

8 Oct 2020 at 18:31 | Open on mastodon.online
Steinar Bang

@Gargron I have no doubt it was a lie by the people initialy promoting it.

That doesn't mean recycling of plastic has to stay a lie.

Or even that it will stay a lie.

10 Oct 2020 at 14:41 | Open on mastodon.social
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