It was never true that plastics were subject to recycling

#plasticwaste
#recyclingfail
#FightGreenwashing

https://www.theguardian.com/business/article/2024/jul/17/shell-recycling-plastic-pledge

#ClimateChange #Pollution #RecyclingFail

#Shell loudly promised to recycle waste plastics, then quietly stopped. (Nuanced piece: plastic recycling often results in more pollution; what we need is FEWER PLASTICS and more renewables/reusables for packaging and such.

https://www.theguardian.com/business/article/2024/jul/17/shell-recycling-plastic-pledge?CMP=twt_a-environment_b-gdneco

Oh, the *sound* I just made: PBSTerra on how Big Business shifted the burden of "recyclables pollution" to consumers.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JK1BfPw7lnQ

To this day,, people will parrot the whole, "well, if YOU recycled more..." even as most plastic can't be recycled, and cities can't afford to recycle what recyclable waste there is.

#Greenwashing #CorporateGreed
#Pollution
#ClimateChange
#RecyclingFail
#Sustainability

Amazon's promise of recyclable packaging falls short, as an investigation reveals a bleak reality: the majority ends up in landfills, incinerated, or downcycled. #ClimateCrisis #AirPollution #RecyclingFail

https://grist.org/accountability/amazon-says-its-plastic-packaging-can-be-recycled-an-investigation-finds-it-usually-isnt/

Store drop-off programs, designed to ease consumer guilt and justify single-use plastic, prove ineffective. It's time to confront the truth behind the recycling symbol. #Sustainability #ZeroWaste #PlasticFantastic

God help me; another "let's recycle this plastic soda bottle!" video where they indeed reuse the plastic in the bottle--and also spend oh, a cool US$25 or so on shit to disguise the plastic so it looks like something else.

::head desk::

#RecyclingFail