SuperDicq (superdicq@minidisc.tokyo)'s status on Thursday, 20-Jun-2024 07:50:34 JST

@jacqueline@chaos.social Oh yeah that seems like a typical "the market will solve it" solution. Good for marketing, extremely ineffective at actually changing anything for the better.

In the Netherlands for the past decade or so we all have soft plastic recycling bins at home. Putting plastic in the recycling bin is greatly incentivized because it gets picked up for free, compared to putting it in the regular bin that the municipality usually charges money for. So the more you recycle, the less you pay.

How much of the plastic actually gets recycled into new plastic is unfortunately unclear for some reason, estimates vary between 14% to 46%.

One thing that is for certain tho is that we do not do landfills anymore. All of our not recycled garbage gets incinerated to generate energy, which I mean is not ideal but definitely better than landfills.