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| Subject: The Great Recycling Con Tue Dec 10, 2019 2:28 am | |
| The greatest trick corporations ever played was making us think we could recycle their products.
In the Video Op-Ed above, we debunk a recycling myth that has lulled us into guilt-free consumption for decades. This holiday season, the United States Postal Service expects to ship almost one billion packages — cardboard boxes full of electronics and fabric and plastic galore. And the Environmental Protection Agency estimates that Americans generate 25 percent more waste in the period between Thanksgiving and New Year’s than during the rest of the year, an additional one million tons per week. But hey, most of it is recyclable, right? Well, not really.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/09/opinion/recycling-myths.html
It wasn't the corporations which lobbied for recycling, so STFU! |
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