7 Things You Didn’t Know About Plastic (and Recycling)
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7 Things You Didn’t Know About Plastic (and Recycling)
He inadvertently created an icon of one of the biggest deceptions in our lifetime. I wish it weren’t true. Recycling was invented by the plastic industry as a way to transfer responsibility for waste to the individual. There are little to no economics in recycling. Of the plastic waste produced between 1950 and 2015, only 9 percent was recycled. R... See more
Joe Gebbiax.comIn the natural world, nothing goes to waste. Matter constantly decomposes and reconstitutes in new shapes, serving new purposes. We have much to learn from this continuum of transmutation in human societies, where we throw “away” our waste to some invisible hereafter, rather than accept the truth: it remains.