[warcher]

I’m specifically saying, in the US, we don’t do anything special with our trash. Mostly no recycling of anything but metal. We put it more or less securely in the ground and bury it. That’s all.

And that is fine. We would have to fix a whole RAFT of serious serious problems before landfills are anybody’s radar. We will never see it our lifetime and I hazard that we may never see the day.

Other countries have tighter land requirements and they might be more forward thinking, but the idea that plastic packaging is impacting the environment is just not supported by data.

As long as you’re not throwing it in the river, plastics waste just doesn’t matter much.

[FuriouslyAdrift]

"...corrugated boxes had a recycling rate of 96.5 percent in 2018."

https://www.epa.gov/facts-and-figures-about-materials-waste-...

[kjkjadksj]

That seems unbelievable to me. Unless internal industrial/commercial uses of corrugated really outnumber john smith by that much.