People recycling plastics would be funny, if it wasn't so dangerous and tragic.
But, the plastic container maker people wanted to ease the growing unease of people. They had to be trained to throw them out. That throwing out these things was ok.
Good job marketing guys…. grrrr
We should have just burnt them for heat to create electricity.
There is really nothing good about reusing plastics. Except as filler to add weight. But still, new plastic is cheaper than recycled.
Unless you recycle it yourself. That it is great weekend project material.
I'd have to go way back, and actually feel inspired to do it, but I don't think it was just as issue of plastic not breaking down in landfills either, if I remember correctly there were other concerns, like toxic burn off if waste was incinerated instead of taken to landfills, small particle matter from burn off causing them to change out their filter systems, if I remember correctly, was also a concern. Maybe I am more aware of it because our city decades ago went to incinerating waste materials. Not all our city's waste gets incinerated, just another option they added to handle waste.
Well, i like the two stage burn, where the second burn is so hot it leaves almost nothing going out the smoke stack.
You can look up rocket mass heaters? rocket stoves, to see the two stage burns
With plastic, just have to make sure its all burnt. Its all hydrocarbons.
I have also of late been tossing more plastic containers. That way no one feels compelled to heat up food in a plastic container for convenience instead of transferring it to a glass container or plate first. I have grand kids to be concerned about. I've even been trying to convey that don't even store food in plastic containers, take the few extra minutes to use something else to store food in, that way they aren't tempted to even reheat something in plastic. It's even hard to tell them not to reheat food in containers from fast food places, but they think because the food comes in the container it's been approved safe, maybe that's true based on some assumption only a small amount of exposure happens, they don't think to add up every single small exposure they are exposed to and how, in the end, that adds up to a lot.