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by ginja 1461 days ago
Metals are also recyclable as many times as you want.

Recycling is not perfect but I don’t understand the negativity. Do you really think it would be preferable to just send everything straight to landfills instead of trying to recycle what we can, even if only once?

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Recycling is overhyped because its a very difficult process that also consumes large amounts of time and energy. For very little purpose.
No, I'm saying recycling gives a false sense of security, when in reality it's a very very imperfect system with flaws people are not aware of

Nothing should be sent to trash When creating a new thing, vendors should make an end-of-life impact study, with the aim of 0% waste, ie make the thing with non polluting materials (wood?) and infinitely recyclable materials