Independent photojournalist and environmental activist. #Lessplastic #Environment
Twitter @jameswakibia
''Environmentalists fear production of plastic will continue increasing as the world quits oil and gas and fossil fuel companies pivot to plastic to sustain their profits.'' @NewYorkTimes
Fossil fuel companies are opposed to a global plastics treaty!
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/06/climate/plastics-climate-pollution.html
I think the biggest mass scam perpetuated on the human population has to have been plastic recycling:
https://education.nationalgeographic.org/resource/whopping-91-percent-plastic-isnt-recycled
@jameswakibia There's a video about it, but it's in Finnish.
Says the bottles are flattened, sorted (colour, clear), melted and cleaned, and made into pellets which can then be made into new products (bottles, meat packaging, etc). Says theoretically can go on forever without loss. In practice, only clear is continuously recycled. Coloured goes to making some bands for e.g. wood industry.
We see how Finland’s deposit system for bottles and cans achieves a recycling rate of more than 90 percent, and how city administrators and event organisers supplement the system with their own resourceful programmes.
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