Recycling Isn’t Helping, Shamus Landry
Photo cred:https://phys.org/news/2018-03-pacific-plastic-dump-larger.html
Summary: Recycling has never been a real solution to our one-use plastics, it’s just a scam. We have to fix our use of such plastics, reusable is where it’s at. Removing one-use plastics from our lifestyle is a climate move. The sham of a Circular Economy is the plastics industry they’ll save recycling, just invest billions into new reprocessing tech that will maybe turn some of this back into plastic. Industry has also told us that it is up to the consumers to control the waste, but in reality it’s not necessarily our fault. If the bigger companies used reusable materials, for example Coca-Cola previously used glass bottles which would be recollected and cleaned then re-used.
Questions:
How effective did you think recycling was before this?
What could big brand companies do to help our situation?
How can we help this situation?
Article:https://www.treehugger.com/environmental-policy/recycling-broken-so-we-have-fix-our-disposable-culture.html
Many people think that recycling is helpful to the earth, but in fact most materials we recycle can not actually be recycled so they just lay in a landfill, and end up places like the ocean and continue to pollute. -Lilly Pearson
ReplyDeleteI think it was interesting that recycling may not be actually helping the environment. This means that we may need to improve the system of recycling that way it is actually helping our earth. - Fagan O'Connor
ReplyDeleteI wonder if there's a way to sort out the recycling better, so it would take less time and effort. -Tori Favazza
ReplyDeleteThere are definitely more ways we could be sorting our waste, the problem is simply the funding. The funding given to these groups is not being used for new technology, more so machinery that could maybe turn some of the material back to usable material
DeleteProducing less plastic is the way to go, it takes 1000+ years for plastic to decompose. Mabye more glass and paper products. -Gabby.p
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DeleteRecycling probably wasn't as effective before because we wouldn't have the problem that we have now and it would be way better and still be continuing to keep going. -Anadia Phillips
ReplyDeleteIt's important to find a more helpful way to recycle our waste. -lizzy raupp
ReplyDeletethe plastic they kill fish , we eat fish and the plastic in the fish.-estuardo
ReplyDeleteI thing using own shopping bags is better than recycling plastic bags.- Juan D
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ReplyDeleteI didn't know untill today that the reduce reuse and recycle was the order we should be doing it. I dont think that in my younger years it was very clear or clearly presented.
Recycling and trash in this world has always been a problem. I don't really think there is ever going to be a complete stop because not everyone will do this. I really hope we can improve soon and decrease the amount of waste because it does have a horrible impact on this world.
ReplyDeleteThis shocks me because i Had the idea of Recycling hammered into me as a child, What other eco friendly options do we have to discard inorganic materials.(Ian Noedel)
ReplyDeleteRecylcing had always been a problem in this world, a bunch of the places where you go, there is most of the time trash just laying around, and people just need to know that they can just walk a couple feet and then throw theyre trash away, or just hang on to it if they don't see a trash can. Jack O'Leary
ReplyDeleteI always known in some was that recycling was not helping but I guess that I was fooled like every one else and that the corporations are just to damn lazy to do what they say what they say what there going to do.
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I think that companies should make things that can be reused instead of recycled but I still think recycling is better than throwing things away. - Veronica
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