It would feel good to get that kind of reaction every time you do a good deed!

Why is it all malls look so alike?

Fantastic!

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>> ^Bruti79:

Why is it all malls look so alike?


Soulless corporations?

Because all malls have floor plans designed to "maximize profit".
>> ^savethecirclepit:

>> ^Bruti79:
Why is it all malls look so alike?

Soulless corporations?

She will never touch another bottle on the floor as long as she lives...

Terrifying, simply terrifying.

what are they going to do with all those red hats? trash them?

>> ^mxxcon:

what are they going to do with all those red hats? trash them?


I believe clothing has a separate process called "donation" or "garage sales". Unfortunately plastic bottles do not do so well on this market. The next time you see any of these red hats they will be on the heads of starving African children, like that sweet Jurassic Park t-shirt I had when I was 10.

>> ^poolcleaner:

>> ^mxxcon:
what are they going to do with all those red hats? trash them?

I believe clothing has a separate process called "donation" or "garage sales". Unfortunately plastic bottles do not do so well on this market. The next time you see any of these red hats they will be on the heads of starving African children, like that sweet Jurassic Park t-shirt I had when I was 10.
or in a trash

the red hats will be reprocessed into food for the african children, actually. RED hats are nutrient dense.

Happy - but logically flawed.

- Celebrate the companies that make the effort to find a customer attractive alternative to plastic.
- Celebrate the person who misses the bin and takes a step back and put it in.
- Beat the crap out of the person who doesn't.

Praising the subsequent recycler is like giving medals for being the best ambulance at the bottom of the cliff.

>> ^ravioli:

It would feel good to get that kind of reaction every time you do a good deed!


What good deed?

Recycling plastic is a pointless waste of time.

>> ^ShakaUVM:

>> ^ravioli:
It would feel good to get that kind of reaction every time you do a good deed!

What good deed?
Recycling plastic is a pointless waste of time.


Please explain, I'm curious...

Not really a question of who would recycle, but who is willing to pick up somebody else's litter.

>> ^ravioli:

Please explain, I'm curious...


Basically, it's better to just manufacture new plastic bottles than to recycle them. Takes less energy / costs less. Recycled plastics have a limited market, and the "lack of landfill" issue is a myth, if you're living in America.

The materials for plastics come from parts of the petroleum spectrum that can't really be used for anything else, so if you hear people talking about how plastics are going to cause us to run out of gas, do us all a favor and laugh at them.

It's a different situation for aluminum cans, though.

Don't take my word (or anyone else's word) for it though. Do your own research and make up your own mind - just make sure to include both hippie sources and non-hippie sources in your research.

>> ^ShakaUVM:

>> ^ravioli:
Please explain, I'm curious...

Basically, it's better to just manufacture new plastic bottles than to recycle them. Takes less energy / costs less. Recycled plastics have a limited market, and the "lack of landfill" issue is a myth, if you're living in America.
The materials for plastics come from parts of the petroleum spectrum that can't really be used for anything else, so if you hear people talking about how plastics are going to cause us to run out of gas, do us all a favor and laugh at them.
It's a different situation for aluminum cans, though.
Don't take my word (or anyone else's word) for it though. Do your own research and make up your own mind - just make sure to include both hippie sources and non-hippie sources in your research.


Please have a look at this article :
link

which contains a link to the actual study.

"...Cost of PET resin pellets between 83 and 85 cents a pound, compared to only 58 to 66 cents a pound for PET recycled pellets."

Plastics recycling is the most difficult to achieve compared to paper, glass and aluminum. But no reason to disregard it. We live in large countries with a lot of space for landfills still available, but we are exceptions.

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