Plastic Recycling Is a Hoax. Environmental groups say the plastics industry has been lying all along.

[WhatInThe]

I've read over the years that most cities and town are lucky to have 50% of the recycleables recycled because as soon as declared a dirty load it's trashed. There could not only be trash in the load but non recycleable or unaccepted plastics. Some communities don't take number 6 for example. Others won't take a plastic bag even if it has the appropriate symbol and number

 

[horseless carriage]

All this plastic re-cycling, stupid if you ask me!

 

[JonSR77]

Plastic vs glass isn't the question. It's what to do with plastics after we use them. Apparently, we don't have a clue. But mega piles of the stuff lie all over the land and in the ocean.

Oh, the tech to properly recycle plastic is there and fine.

The obstructions are all political. Plastic is a petroleum by-product. The greedy oil companies are probably involved in sabotaging the whole industry, so that they can maximize their sales of petroleum to make new plastic.

 

[mrstime]

Remember those cardboard milk cartons are coated with plastic. Most of our clothes have plastic as part of the materials used. It is hard to imagine a world without plastics. It is in things that we never imagine. Oh and I have no intention of ironing clothes again, gave away the ironing board a few months ago.

 

[fuzzybuddy]

Oh, the tech to properly recycle plastic is there and fine.

The obstructions are all political. Plastic is a petroleum by-product. The greedy oil companies are probably involved in sabotaging the whole industry, so that they can maximize their sales of petroleum to make new plastic.

Years ago, I would have said the idea that big oil stifling re-use of plastics was in the tinfoil hat camp. Today, that idea is extremely plausible.

 

[JonSR77]

Years ago, I would have said the idea that big oil stifling re-use of plastics was in the tinfoil hat camp. Today, that idea is extremely plausible.

Oh corporations hire endless financial experts to maximize profit in any way possible. I am sure there are plenty of books out there describing the process.

I know, for example, in the realm of what they call "corporate security" --- they will literally hire people to join the camp of a rival, to undermine them from within. Literally like what intelligence agencies do.

And what I am talking about, is literally something like Coca-Cola, hiring people to get hired by Pepsi, just so that they can get in their and undermine their ad campaigns!!!

I mean...for soda? Yes, for soda, for cookies. That is how nutso they have taken business competition...using systems designed for intelligence operations in warfare...just so they can corner a great market share...of the friggin' cookie market!!!

That is how nutso our society has become. Meanwhile, actually fix and maintain the roads and bridges? Of course not...why devote resources to that??? That would divert funds from the cookie war...

(the Coca-Cola - Pepsi thing was just an analogy. I have no specific knowledge that those specific companies engage in those policies. I do know however, that Coke wanted to put a plant in South America. The land they wanted was populated by Native peoples. Those Native peoples did not want to let their land go. The government down there wound up hiring some goons to chase the Native peoples off...and at least one of them was murdered in the process. That one, I do know. Just for soda! Yes, our society has gone plenty nuts).

 

[Packerjohn]

Call me old fashioned, call me "over the hill" or call me "behind the times" but if you ask me, I like my coffee in a porcelain cup. That's right, the good old fashioned type of cups that all homes and all restaurants used to have. It seems that one day someone "discovered" if you served your coffee in a plastic or styrofoam cup, the customer wouldn't complain and you would have no cups to wash. Who cares about all the garbage? For me, I cannot stand styrofoam between my teeth and the same for plastic cups. Give me porcelain any day. When I travel I always carry a porcelain cup and I don't mind washing it after I am finished. Call me different!