What would a world look like if recycling reached 100%?
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Why not make better recycling plants?
Couldn’t agree more
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Everything would be a bit more efficient, a bit more interchangeable nine Ted. Landfills would fill a bit more slowly.
A useful step to reduce the growth of environmental damage, but not enough
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That would require a world without platic and where we dont make cheap things but quality that can be repaired
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Germany: okayyy here is how you properly recicle a tea bag
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Cleaner, though we'd have to exceed 100% to get everything out of the environment. That's a tall order for microplastics in particular - we're gonna have to live with Vitamin P for a long, long time. Maybe if they finally come up with a way to cheaply eat it with microbes without accidentally obliterating all plastics on earth. That would be inconvenient AF.
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Recycling doesn’t work unless you have a respectful and intelligent society like Japan or South Korea. Americans would never follow the rules.
Who the fuck mentioned america?
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Paper can be recycled 7 times. Every time the quality degrades because the fibers get shorter. The last recycle is purely for toiletpaper or crêpe.
Suri, but everyone uses toilet paper and that will never be recycled so it's still a good idea to recycle paper.
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Recycling doesn’t work unless you have a respectful and intelligent society like Japan or South Korea. Americans would never follow the rules.
Recycling is woke
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Cleaner, though we'd have to exceed 100% to get everything out of the environment. That's a tall order for microplastics in particular - we're gonna have to live with Vitamin P for a long, long time. Maybe if they finally come up with a way to cheaply eat it with microbes without accidentally obliterating all plastics on earth. That would be inconvenient AF.
It would be greater than 100%
At a certain point plastics break apart too much to be remoulded again. At that point they are waste to energy, which in my mind is the final form of recycling.If we want to continue to use plastics, we will need to continue to make virgin plastics. But we also need to environmentally dispose/ use the waste plastics.
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Unless industry is using the raw material produced from recycling, we'll never get to 100% recycling. People throwing stuff in the blue bag or green bin, whatever it is in your region, that's only the first step. We are a long way off from 100%. We have countries who have refused to accept shipments of recycled products because there's no market for that material.
I wish waste to energy was more popular in the US.
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We would all be plagued by a a giant beetle called the chewnifax that would drag children into the acid lake at night at random. The beetle would be so enormous and its armor so sturdy that any and all attempts to kill it fail, and it would remake the world, creating canyons and deep rivers and lakes as it made its way around the world, with the previously mentioned acid like increasing in size as it played with the bones of our children in its depth.
We would live in giant mushrooms and communicate with tin cans on strings, and the world would no long be spherical but instead it would be a perfect cube.
