The plastics industry has heralded a type of chemical recycling it claims could replace new shopping bags and candy wrappers with old ones — but not much is being recycled at all, and this method won’t curb the crisis.
  • FiveEnglish
    5•9 days ago

    Thank you, Lisa Song, for cutting through the bullshit.

  • @reddig33@lemmy.world
    3•9 days ago

    If we’re not going to recycle it, we might as well burn it as fuel in a power plant. Anything is better than throwing it in a landfill or shipping it off to another country.