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What's your favorite conspiracy theory?
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99% of plastic recycling programs are useless and are staged to make people feel good about themselves.
That's not a conspiracy LOL, there's plenty of greenwashing around that costs more in environmental effects than if we'd just partied like it's 1977.
I already believe it haha, please enable my conspiratorial ways more
Only thing that is profitable (read the only thing capitalists are interested in recycling) is aluminum and maybe glass.
This isn’t a conspiracy at all. Plastic recycling was originally driven by plastic producers, to shift the blame for pollution away from themselves. Basically, it was a way for the producers to go “it’s not our fault the world is full of plastic. It’s the consumer’s fault for failing to recycle all of it!” They saw the inevitable plastic mountain on the horizon, and took steps to ensure they weren’t going to be blamed for it.
Yeah, over well over 25 years ago, like I was a child and thought adults knew everything…my uncle said all of your recycling goes to China and gets burnt. So I reckon that this one is definitely, undoubtedly true.
And make a little money on the side.
https://drwho.virtadpt.net/archive/2025-05-05/thinking-about-this-and-that/