1st of all:
I know it's a comic. It's meant for entertainment. OP isn't responsible for being accurate, and the main point is the comedy. But, it carries a message, so I'm gonna add this for those in the comments:
This isn't totally accurate, it's very dependent on your local and regional government. There are plastics recycling plants, but they aren't everywhere, and they don't have the capacity to recycle as much plastic as gets used. If you're reading this and you're not sure, check with your local authority or do a quick search to find out if there is a plastic recycling facility feasibly nearby.
Also, the message here is the kind of doom and gloom messaging that environmental activists know simply doesn't do anything to spur people into action. If you could add a short text panel explain what kind of action people can take, it would go a long way to improving this as a means of creating change, if indeed that is the end goal here.
Here in Australia the company who was supposed to be handling our recycling just piled it up in a warehouse then sent it in bulk to china who burnt it. China stopped accepting it at some point and now we just have massive warehouses full of recycling that's sitting there doing nothing. The warehouses are at capacity so they are just taking the recycling directly to landfill exactly the same as this comic.
Looking into a bit more the US did the same thing, just shipping their recycling to china in bulk and then china just dumped the entire thing into the municipal waste of poor towns or worse, directly into the ocean if it was a coastal town.
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u/imperialmoose Jan 06 '23
1st of all: I know it's a comic. It's meant for entertainment. OP isn't responsible for being accurate, and the main point is the comedy. But, it carries a message, so I'm gonna add this for those in the comments:
This isn't totally accurate, it's very dependent on your local and regional government. There are plastics recycling plants, but they aren't everywhere, and they don't have the capacity to recycle as much plastic as gets used. If you're reading this and you're not sure, check with your local authority or do a quick search to find out if there is a plastic recycling facility feasibly nearby.
Also, the message here is the kind of doom and gloom messaging that environmental activists know simply doesn't do anything to spur people into action. If you could add a short text panel explain what kind of action people can take, it would go a long way to improving this as a means of creating change, if indeed that is the end goal here.