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[-] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 10 points 4 months ago

Manufacturers have no responsibility or regulation in packaging. Buy some items made of metal, and you still generate immediate plastic packaging waste. Some of that plastic has recycling symbols on them, but they can be fake, and again, no regulation.

So all we really recycle is clear PETG. 90% of recycling plastics are landfill. We put stuff in blue bins to remove consumer guilt.

[-] sip@programming.dev 1 points 4 months ago

idk man, in Rome, Italy you get fined if you don't separate yo things.

[-] Tyrq@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 4 months ago

Just because they fine you doesn't make separating them any more or less recyclable

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