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[–] MolochHorridus@piefed.social 38 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Not to say you shouldn’t recycle.

[–] some_designer_dude@lemmy.world 49 points 3 days ago

Of course not. But it does feel a little silly when there are town-sized data centres being built in every direction and billionaires are just “choosing” to break all laws. Meta’s got gas turbines running to power theirs and they just said they’re gonna do it for another year. Who’s gonna stop ‘em? Everyone is too busy working and trying to survive to stop them from pretty literally torching our futures and especially our children’s futures.

Things will need to get pretty bad before we see any kind of justice or change of direction, I fear ☹️

[–] Canajan@piefed.ca 16 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Unfortunately we’ve been duped, a lot of it sadly ends up in landfills.

[–] fizzle@quokk.au 11 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Yeah, I've become something of a refuse-police everywhere I go.

It pisses me off that you can just put whatever in the bin and it gets disappeared and you've done a great job caring for the planet.

Most of it is just plain not recyclable. Never was. Some can theoretically be downcycled into expensive ugly park benches that no one wants so no one bothers to do that. Only PET can be "re" cycled, but plenty isn't.

[–] coolman@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago

Glass and metals are recycled pretty frequently, but yeah pretty much everything is just garbage

[–] MolochHorridus@piefed.social 5 points 3 days ago

In some less advanced countries, like the United States of America.