Recycling is a scam

I try to consume as little plastic as possible, but I inevitably do. What do I do with all the plastic waste I've accumulated over the last year?

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  1. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    Getting municipal waste disposal to deal with it will almost certainly be the best option, because they have more money and resources to throw at it than you do.
    If for some reason you are utterly convinced that they are 100% going to put it in a shipping container, send it overseas, and hope it ends up someone else's problem, just fricking burn it (outdoors and where nothing human is downwind).
    You did what you could, but it's not possible to live the lifestyle society expects we do and not create some forever-garbage.

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      >burn it
      The hotter the better
      If you've got real money, you can have Luke head down to Tashi Station and pick up a couple plasma converters.
      http://www.kva-engineering.com/plasma_waste_converter.html

  2. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    Recycling has always been a scam. Just throw your shit away in the trash anon. Your little bit of pollution won't make any difference.

  3. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    Melt it down into giant ingot.
    You need to do this in an oxygen free atmosphere though, otherwise it will burn

  4. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    Incinerate it. Gas streams are easier to clean than liquid/solid waste, plus you get heat energy

  5. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    Some basedfaced homosexual really hung an american flag over a pile of trash and called it "art" with deep and meaningful symbolism. God I fricking hate photographers.

  6. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    >You HAVE to recycle or you will pay fine
    >You have to consume LESS
    What if we just forced moronic manufacturers to ditch plastic packaging? Ditch the complex plastic packaging, replace plastic bottles with multi use glass ones, use waxed paper for meat/cheese packaging etc.

    Oh wait you cant do that because then it wont sell as well, better guilt trip people into doing meaningless labor like "recycling" then

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      >Should we learn how to deal with plastic
      >Or should we regress to shittier and more expensive 1920s packaging

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        we learn how to deal with plastic
        There is no "dealing with plastics".
        Learn basic chemistry, even if you "recycle" parts of it you still get plastics with brittle and weak links that cannot be used for most of things plastic is used for.

        • 11 months ago
          Anonymous

          "Deal with" doesn't necessarily mean "recycle 100%", waste is inevitable but that doesn't meant we need to throw the baby out with the bathwater

          • 11 months ago
            Anonymous

            Can’t plastics be seriously compressed?

            • 11 months ago
              Anonymous

              Yes, it’s the same principle they used to make those wood logs, the compression generates so much heat it melts the lignin and out comes a log.

              They don’t do that for plastics because the log would not be worth anything, it’s still cheaper to return the shipping container back to the country it came from full of plastic waste. You have to return the container anyway, since north north america doesn’t make anything, they’d be empty otherwise.

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                could you make lignin balls?

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                Sending the plastic back to China isn't actually going to fix anything in the long run. If you institute that as a policy they're going to burn it all or throw it in the ocean, and it's going to wind its way back onto your doorstep.

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                i think china banned this shit already so the garbage has to go somewhere else

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        I'm with you on this.
        Plastic is an amazing material, with so many potential benefits.
        Yet the one benefit we actually latched onto was "cheap as fricking shit, literally use it once and throw it away."
        Frick these bans/boycotts on using plastics. Just tax the creation/import of plastic and add some regulation for the worst offenders (small pieces like straws and bags that even if you wanted to reuse or dispose of properly are just likely to break apart or blow out of your hands).
        Make reusable containers out of plastic, and actually reuse them.
        Stop using the particularly bullshit plastic compositions that absorb aromatic chemicals or stains.
        And if there's a strong case for non-reusable plastic in a certain context (perhaps hermetically sealing products), the taxation will help to ensure that it was actually a strong reason.

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      >What if we just forced moronic manufacturers to ditch plastic packaging?
      this is the correct answer. pushing the responsibility onto the consumer is obvious bullshit and deflects attention from the real source of the problem. capitalism has no moral compass and does not care about the environment. it has to be regulated or it will do any awful shit that it can to help the bottom line.

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        the problem here though is that this isn't anything that i can do as a consumer. i have a bunch of fricking shitty plastic prostitute garbage and i need to do something with it.

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        recycling ideology from the 1860's
        lmao

        • 11 months ago
          Anonymous

          >thank the Lord we have less regulations now than we did in 1860

  7. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    Convert all the waste into plastic cordage. Use it to enhance your off the grid lifestyle

  8. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    Mix it with cement to make a polymer based concrete.

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      Funny, I was going to say mix it with melted metals and other assorted garbage to create chinesium.

  9. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    Doesn’t plastic come from oils? From the bottom of earth’s crust? Why not just put it back?

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      i see you are a man of our Lord Jesus Christ. bless you sir

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