In a new video, TV's favorite scientist parrots hackneyed lines about "the good people at Coca-Cola" and their near-useless recycling efforts.

This week, Coca-Cola, one of the world’s biggest plastic polluters, teamed up with TV’s favorite scientist for a campaign to create a “world without waste,” a joke of a corporate greenwashing campaign.

In a video innocuously titled “The Coca-Cola Company and Bill Nye Demystify Recycling,” an animated version of Nye—with a head made out of a plastic bottle and his signature bow tie fashioned from a Coke label—walks viewers through the ways “the good people at the Coca-Cola company are dedicating themselves to addressing our global plastic waste problem.”

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  • DragonNest_Aidit [they/them,use name]
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    3 years ago

    "Recycling" as it exist today is largely bullshit pushed by corporations to push off responsibility of environmental destruction on the people.

    "The environment is polluted because its YOUR FAULT for not taking care of it! The poles wouldn't have melted if YOU took RESPONSIBILITY"

    :porky-happy: :speech-l:

    The only place where recycling is actually worth a damn is with metals and it is because of practicality, like aluminium is actually an uncommon metal that is only economic because of how extremely recyclable it is.

    • DeathToBritain [she/her, they/them]
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      3 years ago

      most of our plastic in Europe just ends up being sent to poor people in places like Indonesia where they pick through the scraps and burn the rest to survive. recycling plastic is not like metal at all, plastic can only get worse every time it's recycled where obviously you can melt and shape metal ad infinitum

      • DragonNest_Aidit [they/them,use name]
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        3 years ago

        Yep, that's the problem because plastic waste is the majority of what most people generates. It's actually pretty insidious because capitalists have been systematically abandoning metals as material for everyday packaging and products, and now that we're clogged with plastics they're trying to make it about individual responsibility.

    • LoudMuffin [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      Is the lack of aluminium packaging just due to penny pinching? I never understood why bottled water doesn't come in cans

      • DragonNest_Aidit [they/them,use name]
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        3 years ago

        Yeah, at first they just made the can thinner (old cans are fucking strong, that's why tough guys in old movies like to crush cans with their bare hands) but plastic packaging are ultimately cheaper.