Recycling
Meltdown99
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According to CBC news, only 11% of plastics in Canada get recycled.
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Canada's major grocery chains slow to tackle the mounting problem of plastic waste
https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/plastic-waste-grocery-stores-recycling-1.4969379
A grocery in England is well on it's way to eliminating plastics.
Seems my preconceptions are what should have been burned...
I AM MINE
So honestly i dont recycle on a weekly basis.
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companies who work for minimizing the usage of plastics.
This is why we need to find an alternative to plastics and up our recycling game.
https://www.cannabistech.com/articles/why-the-world-needs-hemp-plastic?fbclid=IwAR0SdN_YlLgjBrTbzGGiO09rt-YwMNy0HjQyOtoSfS6zAiyy-1Bsak6OHiE
So we have that recycling system for one way plastic bottles and beverage cans for carbonated drinks/water etc. since years now, but there are still exceptions that are completely nonsense.
Since the new year there are more cans and bottles that we have to pay for but the bottles for fruit juices for example are still not going to that system.
There could be done so much more. Some one way plastic articles will be not allowed here anymore but it needs two more years till it's finally out of the shops. Why are they not doing more?
Money of course.
It's a farce… we have to get rid off of all these plastic bags and stuff. We are talking since years and years about it.
But we will pay the price for it. I think sooner than later. Nature already does.
At the end of that video above they say " It's time to make sure it never happens again!" Right, but well this whale is not the only one that already struggles with our waste and brainlessness.
It's not in the future anymore. IT HAPPENS ALREADY!
We are collecting our trash in four different garbage bins plus collecting one-way and more-way bottles, also old glas and hazardous materials in ever household. We are used to it. Every start is hard but after a while it's just normal to do.
Germany gets his laughs from other countries regularly if it's about recycling or whatever environmental tries for making a difference. We are failing massive with some stuff. Like we also sold recycling plastic to China and most people didn't know. What a shame!
But we also do some good things and it's better than doing nothing!
The world needs people to do their best. I get that most countries can't do much because it's expensive to recycle and we can't but our systems into other countries, but everybody can do something.
If just people would stop being so selfish and just would care.
I try to buy as much as I can in Shops to reduce packaging materials again, I don't use plastic bags anymore, try to use glass bottles, stopped buying plastic household stuff, safe water and power as much as I can etc. Just the usual easy stuff that a lot of people don't care about. It already makes a difference especially when we all do it.
Swedish people produce about the same amount of waste per year as other Europeans but, remarkably, less than 1% of household trash ends up in landfills. This is in part due to the 32 waste-to-energy (WTE) plants that have been set up across the country. These plants incinerate over two million tons of trash annually—almost 50% of the waste produced by the country—and have been in operation for years, according to the Huffington Post.
Of course, Sweden still recycles whatever it can, but anything that can’t be reused or recycled normally ends up at these WTE plants. As the name suggests, the garbage doesn’t go to waste but is used to generate energy. WTE plants contain huge incinerators for the trash. As it’s burnt, steam is produced that spins generator turbines which produce electricity. This is then transferred to transmission lines and distributed across the country by a grid.