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Thread whoring... Last one... I swear... Recycle trucks
#26977430 - 10/09/20 06:20 PM (3 years, 3 months ago) |
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I was slapped with a one time warning by our cities recycling company for throwing water bottle into a plastic bag and then throwing the bag into the bin.
How the fuck did they know!? How do they know!?
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Re: Thread whoring... Last one... I swear... Recycle trucks [Re: Cracked Egg]
#26977443 - 10/09/20 06:29 PM (3 years, 3 months ago) |
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That's pretty overboard but it demonstrates that your garbage is not private.
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Re: Thread whoring... Last one... I swear... Recycle trucks [Re: psi]
#26977446 - 10/09/20 06:32 PM (3 years, 3 months ago) |
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Also recycling plastic is pretty bullshit anyway. I don't see what's so bad about burying it in a landfill.
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Re: Thread whoring... Last one... I swear... Recycle trucks [Re: psi]
#26977458 - 10/09/20 06:39 PM (3 years, 3 months ago) |
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I'm surprised you say that psi. What's your thinking on why plastic in a landfill is ok?
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Re: Thread whoring... Last one... I swear... Recycle trucks [Re: Jokeshopbeard]
#26977553 - 10/09/20 07:55 PM (3 years, 3 months ago) |
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In some respects it's equivalent to putting the oil back into the ground. And a lot of plastics are very stable, at least if not exposed to erosion forces. The problem of plastics in the oceans mostly has to do with large rivers in third world countries.
Overall I think it would be better to use a lot less plastic and a lot more metal for everything, and leave remaining fossil fuels in the ground.
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Re: Thread whoring... Last one... I swear... Recycle trucks [Re: psi]
#26977564 - 10/09/20 08:03 PM (3 years, 3 months ago) |
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 cmon wtf sri lanka
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Re: Thread whoring... Last one... I swear... Recycle trucks [Re: psi]
#26977566 - 10/09/20 08:04 PM (3 years, 3 months ago) |
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psi said: Overall I think it would be better to use a lot less plastic and a lot more metal for everything, and leave remaining fossil fuels in the ground.
For sure. But recycling the stuff where we can is better than landfilling it, surely?
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Re: Thread whoring... Last one... I swear... Recycle trucks [Re: Jokeshopbeard] 1
#26977607 - 10/09/20 08:34 PM (3 years, 3 months ago) |
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But plastic is not endlessly recyclable like metals are. So it can often be kind of for show because nobody really wants the plastic. A landfill is the best eventual resting place for plastic once it has been created. Reforming it into something else only increases the chances that it will end up somewhere worse.
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Re: Thread whoring... Last one... I swear... Recycle trucks [Re: psi] 2
#26977741 - 10/09/20 10:44 PM (3 years, 3 months ago) |
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I've seen multiple sources that say recycling plastic costs more, uses more fossil fuel and is overall worse for the environment than just burying it. I don't remember what those sources were, or how reliable they were. It's just something I've heard.
I suspect that the most environmentally friendly thing a person could do with most of their trash is burn it, especially if they could do something useful with the heat, like heat their homes. Most food grade plastics burn relatively cleanly. It's mostly PVC and urethane that produce toxic by-products from combustion.
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Re: Thread whoring... Last one... I swear... Recycle trucks [Re: Baby_Hitler] 1
#26977754 - 10/09/20 11:00 PM (3 years, 3 months ago) |
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Plastic will decompose fully in only 1000 years. Assuming humans wont last another 100 or so years (some theorists suggest) it doest really matter what we do with the plastic right? Its just ugly to US. Earth dont care, it wont last a micro second from Earths perspective
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Re: Thread whoring... Last one... I swear... Recycle trucks [Re: trees]
#26977756 - 10/09/20 11:04 PM (3 years, 3 months ago) |
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As long as it doesn't get to the ocean
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Re: Thread whoring... Last one... I swear... Recycle trucks [Re: twighead]
#26977764 - 10/09/20 11:18 PM (3 years, 3 months ago) |
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Fuck that city man. What difference does it make. I don't see how they could legally get away with that nonsense
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Re: Thread whoring... Last one... I swear... Recycle trucks [Re: Baby_Hitler]
#26978666 - 10/10/20 03:05 PM (3 years, 3 months ago) |
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Baby_Hitler said: I suspect that the most environmentally friendly thing a person could do with most of their trash is burn it, especially if they could do something useful with the heat, like heat their homes. Most food grade plastics burn relatively cleanly. It's mostly PVC and urethane that produce toxic by-products from combustion.
Assuming 100% clean burning though you still are essentially burning fossil fuels and adding to atmospheric carbon. Whereas in a landfill it is out of play for an extended period, almost like you had left the original oil in the ground.
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Re: Thread whoring... Last one... I swear... Recycle trucks [Re: psi]
#26979169 - 10/10/20 09:53 PM (3 years, 3 months ago) |
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So... Like... How do they know?
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Re: Thread whoring... Last one... I swear... Recycle trucks [Re: Cracked Egg]
#26979189 - 10/10/20 10:07 PM (3 years, 3 months ago) |
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Someone looks through your garbage I guess.
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Re: Thread whoring... Last one... I swear... Recycle trucks [Re: psi] 1
#26979225 - 10/10/20 10:41 PM (3 years, 3 months ago) |
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Solution: put the nastiest things possible in your garbage
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Re: Thread whoring... Last one... I swear... Recycle trucks [Re: spirit_shadow]
#26979235 - 10/10/20 10:53 PM (3 years, 3 months ago) |
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Maybe go to a legit butcher shop and buy a variety of different animal heads. Pig, sheep, goat, cow, chicken, whatever you can get. It's like that horse head scene from whatever Godfather movie but with the added horror of a bunch of random heads jumbled together.
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Re: Thread whoring... Last one... I swear... Recycle trucks [Re: psi]
#26979738 - 10/11/20 09:45 AM (3 years, 3 months ago) |
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I heard Canada is going to phase out single use plastics, which sucks for me, at my gf's house she is on city water, I can drink it plain, but when I add all my supplements to the city water I get legit sick, but im fine doing that at my house on my well water, I think they react with whatever chemicals they put into city water, so when im at her house I buy the 99 cent 1.5 litre spring water to mix my snake juice, itll suck when I cant get those anymore, ill have to get like a gallon bottle and fill it up at my house to bring over
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