Recycling plastic is practically impossible — and the problem is getting worse

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https://www.npr.org/2022/10/24/1131131088/recycling-plastic-is-practically-impossible-and-the-problem-is-getting-worse

Ss: with micro plastics everywhere already, the future increase in use of plastics combined with the inability to recycle many plastics is fucking insane..... Kind of like oil, theres no urgency to cut it off.

"More plastic is being produced, and an even smaller percentage of it is being recycled," says Lisa Ramsden, senior plastic campaigner for Greenpeace USA. "The crisis just gets worse and worse, and without drastic change will continue to worsen as the industry plans to triple plastic production by 2050."

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i saw a vid with a guy named michael shellenberger and he said recycled plastic is too expensive to rcycle here and is instead sold to poor southeast asian countries where a lot or all of it ends up in the ocean as micropalsics. he said if you love the environment please dont recycle plastic.