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   Paul Cantrell (inthehands@hachyderm.io)'s status on Wednesday, 03-Dec-2025 02:10:08 JST Paul Cantrell

   • CelloMom On Cars

   I am once again begging, begging everyone to hold these 3 thoughts in their head at once:

   1. Plastics recycling is not very effective. It’s far, far better to not use plastic at all in the first place, and that failing, far better to reuse.

   2. Plastics recycling is not worthless or pointless. Don’t just throw it all away because “iT dOEsn’T matTeR.” A miserable 5% reclaimed is still better than 0% reclaimed.

   3. Plastics recycling is nonetheless part of a petrochemical greenwashing campaign, per @CelloMomOnCars’s post below. https://mastodon.social/@CelloMomOnCars/115650231600448649

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     CelloMom On Cars (cellomomoncars@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 03-Dec-2025 04:52:19 JST CelloMom On Cars

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     @inthehands

     Also the microplastics will be worse than the asbestos.

     You don't have to ditch all plastics in one go (you can't) but just take that first step. Then the next.

     https://mastodon.social/@CelloMomOnCars/115627526943314476

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     Paul Cantrell (inthehands@hachyderm.io)'s status on Wednesday, 03-Dec-2025 05:32:16 JST Paul Cantrell

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     I am specifically irked by the number of otherwise sensible people who see 1 and 3 and refuse to see 2, using their cynicism to rationalize their laziness.

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     Paul Cantrell (inthehands@hachyderm.io)'s status on Friday, 05-Dec-2025 03:02:38 JST Paul Cantrell

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     • CelloMom On Cars
     • Rich Puchalsky ⩜⃝

     @richpuchalsky @CelloMomOnCars
     This of course also happens with outright trash. Recycling is neither the cause of nor the solution to this horrifying problem.

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     Rich Puchalsky ⩜⃝ (richpuchalsky@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 05-Dec-2025 03:02:39 JST Rich Puchalsky ⩜⃝

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     • CelloMom On Cars

     @inthehands @CelloMomOnCars

     I read downthread until someone posted what I was going to post, which is that throughout the history of plastics recycling most of the 95% not recovered has been dumped in a poor country somewhere. And they were answered "where would you landfill that waste"!

     I guess dumping it in an open dump in a poor country is supposed to be better than an expensive landfill in a wealthy country?