Greenpeace InternationalRecycling is a toxic lie.
Big brands and petrochemical corporations keep selling the public a convenient and comforting story to hide the hard truth: they simply have to STOP PRODUCING SO MUCH PLASTIC.
Dr Susi Arnott@greenpeace Agree with gist, but what to make of this?
(From a fan of #WillemDafoe, hoping he's on board:)
https://practicalaction.org/news-stories/turning-river-rubbish-into-money-in-bangladesh/
(From a fan of #WillemDafoe, hoping he's on board:)
https://practicalaction.org/news-stories/turning-river-rubbish-into-money-in-bangladesh/
milagemayvaryI assume they are using some mix of heating plus vacuum chamber to extract carbon & reclaimed oil.
I see this as all well & good type of recycling IF the pyrolysis plant is 100% fueled by green energy.
Now, what you do next with that oil is what I'm concerned with.
Is the recycled plastic fueling this irrigation pump or just lubricating?
I would hope most are creating something with the oil instead of burning & releasing into the atmosphere.
cauZation@milagemayvary @SusiArnott @greenpeace A PET project: differential map of PET plastics and the majority of 'non'-recyclable fossil fuel products...
The fossil fuels industry employs virtual geniuses in greenwashing within a 10% budget, of their 90% profits. Their next extraneous luxury thrill depends on keeping 90% of the masses in deeper ignorance.
#Oligarchy #TechBros and authoritarian autocracies bank on it. Too late for the wealthiest nations. #EmergingEconomies #DevelopingCountries now.
What?
I agree that tech billionaires are spending plenty of dosh to keep masses ignorant to green washing plastics.
But what do you mean by "Too late for wealthy countries"?
Your reply reads like a LLM fever dream, and I suspect as much seeing the banner on your page.
Take care 
Count Holdem@milagemayvary @cauZation I agree that fossil fuels are too deeply embedded into most wealthy nations, in order to stop burning them. Most grids are completely dependent on them as well, and need far too much upgrading for various renewables. Petrochemical companies like Dow Chemicals, use political cronies that write policy for them, while profit sharing - a direct conflict of interest.
China's Belt and Road Initiative circumvents this via the Global South. No more good money after bad.
I disagree with the notion that fossil fuels are too deeply embedded.
Only recently has it financially makes sense to switch to solar & is getting cheaper, more efficient & more is coming online day by day.
Battery storage is getting cheaper with sodium ion batteries coming into the picture.
Texas generated 40% of power demand via solar for the first 9 months this year.
Gas met 47% of the energy demands last year & 43% this yer.
All that despite who's in office.
@milagemayvary @cauZation More and more a moot point, if not exaggerated, since China is outperforming the rest of the world, combined, in renewables. And yes, with the current US administration; this will only get worse.
No idea what you're on about.
You're the one who brought up some race with China with their belt & road project.
This thread is about green washing plastic recycling, and I disagree that fossil fuels are too embedded to remove out of the power grid.
Nothing is permanent.
@milagemayvary You should have stopped at "No idea".
Unfortunately; your ilk are legion, embedding ignorance as the ultimate enemy, as is your kind's PET project. Past cascading tipping points; no doubt you're 'winning'.
Nu Modular@CountHoldem @milagemayvary Therein lies the rub: most don't even have half of how predominant fossil fuels are, at most every level of civilization. They don't even know how much carbon THEY're made of, or, therefore, the difference graduating the burning of fossil fuels can make in a backyard greenhouse, let alone our planet.
And the convenience store mentality of easiest path math, makes it all that much more difficult to curb - via educational systems or otherwise. This is why I'm more pessimistic on current and future generations being able to regroup in emerging economies, instead of just ignorantly prolonging the fossil fuels industries' reign. With increasingly cascading destabilization of ecosystems around the world - Milankovitch Cycles aside - the odds are getting worse for even the best of root infrastructure scientists to overcome.
Perhaps a mass extinction.
@numodular @CountHoldem @milagemayvary Even just the BASICS of behavioral science...
sigh