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.”
video has 26 likes to 2k dislikes
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I've worked in waste management before, and I can tell you that most of the plastic that's 'recycled' is absolutely not recycled at all. green washing capitalists don't even do the actual bare fucking minimum they say they will, which won't stop climate collapse, because that costs money, so they just lie
Yeah, most places don't have mrfs anyways because they cost like $300million to build our something. Recycling is either directly bailed and sent to the 3rd world using bunker oil burning ships or just mixed in with the regular landfill trash (after extracting fines from individuals who didn't put the right thing in the right bin of course)
"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"
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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.
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
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.
Is the lack of aluminium packaging just due to penny pinching? I never understood why bottled water doesn't come in cans
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.
Also aluminum cans still have plastic in them, the inside is lined
I just want everyone to know the money I made from this immediately got funneled directly into militant communist groups throughout the global south. $320k buys A LOT of machine guns, medicine, and food in the Philippines.
If we can recover and recycle plastic, we can [...] keep it from becoming trash
If only we could prevent public intellectuals from becoming trash.
just recycle bro
Where I live we have zero recycling infrastructure. Nilch. Nada. The city picks up trash and that's it. If I wanted to recycle I would have to drive a hundred miles to some facility.
If you're in the US, that's the case across most of the country. After China stopped buying our recycled crap, many programs here either stopped collecting altogether, or they kept up the façade by picking it up and then just dumping it in a landfill.
This isn’t new for Bill.
https://civileats.com/2015/06/03/what-bill-nye-got-wrong-in-his-about-face-on-gmos/amp/
https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/bill-nye-does-not-speak-for-us-and-he-does-not-speak-for-science/
https://amp.theguardian.com/environment/2022/mar/16/disney-fossil-fuel-ride-ellen-degeneres-bill-nye
Fuck Bill Nye. All my science homies hate Bill Nye.
The pro fossil fuels Disney ride with Bill Nye and Ellen Degeneres is one of the most incoherent things that have ever actually happened.
Just chucking memes into the blood machine and seeing what comes out.
Looks up from map of Bill Nye's last known location
"Now's my time to shine"
Stephen Jay Gould is the champ. That field was so infested with garbage during his time, and he comes out as a peach of a person
If they're good people, how come they're corporate executives? Checkmate
Bill Nye is going to be on fucking fire along with the rest of the planet. I hope he’s happy.
Theres a plugin at least for chrome. Not at home rn can share it later
better late than never: it’s simply called “Return YouTube Dislike”.
according to the faq:
Where does the extension get its data?
A combination of archived data from before the offical YouTube dislike API shut down, and extrapolated extension user behavior.
