• Thordros [he/him, comrade/them]
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    4 months ago

    Who could have predicted this????

    We've always known that recycling 90% of plastics was a bullshit pipe dream. They cannot be recycled. Oil companies knew it. Governments knew it. Yet here we are churning out record volumes of "recyclable" plastics every year, 40 years later.

    • huf [he/him]
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      4 months ago

      literally our only hope is that some lab manages to make a microbe that really can eat plastic and then it gets accidentally released into the wild and eats up all the plastics in 5 years