[lotophage]

Something similar happened in Australia on a large scale. A soft plastic (single use shopping bag) recycling company called REDcycle which partnered with all the major supermarkets was discovered to be just stockpiling it in warehouses. They'd been doing that for about a decade before they were discovered.

[underwater]

REDcycle was everywhere. Almost all supermarket-bought packaging included a REDcycle logo. A giant scam that was greenwashing single use plastics.

[Eric_WVGG]

I’m honestly… really okay with this?

Sooner or later someone is bound to crack the code on plastic recycling — enzymes or gm bacteria or whatever, or even just throwing it all back down empty oil wells. I think separating all this crap in the meantime is perfectly cromulent.

[underwater]

The problem is that we are told to reduce, reuse, recycle. In that order.

Instead people are told there is a solution for recycling. They feel like the problem of plastic waste is solved. So they don’t make any efforts to reduce or reuse their waste.

[liveoneggs]

single use shopping bags really are shocking