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The Middle East, Texas, Russia, Canada… there’s a bunch of sources, but it’s still a lot of work to get. Plus, you know, its usage is slowly killing us.
Not to mention how plastic recycling isn't exactly easy anyway. Not all jurisdictions take all kinds of plastic. So you have to know what your recycling center can handle and what you're tossing in or risk contamination.
I go out of my way to buy things shipped in paper, glass, or metal containers. Even though steel and aluminum cans do have a little plastic in them, it's far less plastic than containers made entirely of it.
It would be nice if we could have more things sold in the bulk section so you can bring your own container. Like, if I could buy laundry detergent or shampoo using my own containers, that'd be sick.
My coffee shop used to take my own cup and they would fill that up. The pandemic hit and they stopped doing taking reusable cups. After the pandemic, they still aren't taking cups. This just feels like corpo propaganda.
The problem is plastic can't be broken down and reassembled forever. Recycling isn't Lego. The focus should be finding ways to reuse something without altering it too much. But yeah it's not gonna save the planet sadly.
This is actually incorrect, you can absolutely break plastic into its basic constituents and create new plastic. But that costs more than simply using already existing oil.
The cheaper downcycle method is roughly separating the plastics and using certain ones to make new items like plastic bags, buckets etc.
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