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⬐ LeCow

Remember that 50-100 years ago humanity recycled almost everything because it had to. Yet we pretend it's some new idea.

⬐ tuatoru

Post-consumer recyling has always been greenwashing.

It acts as a "license to pollute" for Karens, though: "I recycle and tell other people off for not recycling enough; I'm working hard saving the planet, so I deserve my five-hours-each-way plane trip for a weekend break four times a year."

⬐ MyHypatia

I agree the post-consumer recycling passes the buck from manufacturers to consumers. I think your point can be made without making it sound like it is because "Karens", which is just a way of saying "thoughtless women", are taking frivolous trips.

If you're going to complain that the blame and responsibility is misplaced, you're ruining own point by using it as a reason to complain about "thoughtless women and their unimportant, pointless trips." It would be similarly ineffective to make a comment about just men and their unimportant, pointless trips.

> Goodwill can start an unofficial recycling sorting operation, and learn to make a profit center out of this cost center.

Most recycling centers are running at a deficit because no one wants to buy the recycled material.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iBGZtNJAt-M

⬐ warmwaffles

Thanks for the NPR video. Eye opening.

⬐ nwah1

Seems implausible that they can perpetually run at a deficit. Unless you mean absent subsidies. But if such subsidies exist then that is one way to convert the losses into profits.

⬐ wumpus

In my local area, garbage fees are used to pay for the losses of recycling. That's the usual thing in the US. Same thing for residential waste in landfills.