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Recycling Is Suffering From System Failure; It’s Time for a System Redesign

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Recycling Is Suffering From System Failure; It’s Time for a System Redesign

Many of the goods and services we all rely on are created with the specific intent to lose value over time so that the consumer is stuck in an enforced consumption service cycle, which increases value for the producer, but not for the customer nor the planet. And the cost of dealing with all of this reduced value stuff is placed on the customer and local governments in the form of funding local waste management services.

Recycling Is BS

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New Report Confirms: Recycling Is BS

Recycling makes you feel good about buying disposable packaging and sorting it into neat little piles so that you can then pay your city or town to take away and ship across the country or farther so that somebody can melt it and downcycle it into a bench if you are lucky.

Why I Think the Food Waste Ban Was Ignored.

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Many of the greenies pushed hard for the plastic bag ban. At the same time, commercial food waste landfill ban got very little attention, although one could argue that will save a lot more waste out of landfills, and do more to reduce carbon emissions then banning single-use plastic bans. Donating more unsold food to charities and composting food waste, is really a good idea, but it didn’t excite liberals because it wasn’t as much about social control and will be largely invisible to ordinary consumers.

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