| 19 Nov 2022 |
 Mathijs | in my opinion that logo is made by people that were just being downright evil | 00:03:36 |
 enigma9o7 | In reply to @mathijs:matrix.vgorcum.com
also: on a related note: that "recycle" symbol was chosen on purpose to suggest that it can be recycled by the plastic industry * OMG! A recycle symbol was chosen to suggest it can be recycled? The horror! | 00:03:49 |
 srr24x7 | https://vid.puffyan.us/watch?v=4o9-FkSHGWA | 00:04:07 |
| Mathijs | In reply to @enigma9o7:matrix.org
OMG! A recycle symbol was chosen to suggest it can be recycled? The horror! the thing is: it can't | 00:04:16 |
| Mathijs | we don't | 00:04:19 |
| Mathijs | they don't | 00:04:22 |
| Mathijs | they never even lifted a finger to actually try | 00:04:31 |
| Mathijs | the only fucking thing they did | 00:04:35 |
| Mathijs | is slap on that logo | 00:04:40 |
| enigma9o7 | the last city I lived in, we could put plastic shopping bags and styrofoam egg cartons in our recycle bin. but then i moved here, and they dont accept that stuff. | 00:04:54 |
| Mathijs | sure | 00:05:00 |
| enigma9o7 | they dont even accept pizza boxes for some reason | 00:05:07 |
| Mathijs | but do you know what happens to those neatly separated boxes? | 00:05:11 |
| Mathijs | absolutely fucking nothing! | 00:05:17 |
| Mathijs | they just end up in a landfill | 00:05:23 |
| Mathijs | or (best case, probably) get burned to make a tiny bit of electricity | 00:05:38 |
| Mathijs | (and, like 5% of it ends up in the ocean) | 00:05:50 |
| enigma9o7 | well the ocean is pretty big | 00:06:21 |
| enigma9o7 | i think we used to dump our trash there | 00:06:28 |
| enigma9o7 | but stopped that like 100 years ago | 00:06:31 |
| enigma9o7 | but used to work pretty well | 00:06:34 |
| Mathijs | yeah, but we're not talking about the ocean | 00:06:48 |
| Mathijs | we're talking about the plastic producers being assholes | 00:07:03 |
| Mathijs | the reality is that we still don't recycle basically any plastic | 00:07:55 |
| Mathijs | some countries do reuse plastics a bit | 00:08:23 |
| Mathijs | which is better than nothing | 00:08:28 |
| Mathijs | but the use-once-and-discard plastics are just evil | 00:08:50 |
| srr24x7 | In reply to @srr24x7:envs.net
https://vid.puffyan.us/watch?v=4o9-FkSHGWA 👆️ That | 00:09:08 |
| srr24x7 | In reply to @mathijs:matrix.vgorcum.com
the reality is that we still don't recycle basically any plastic It's all just a big marketing lie | 00:09:18 |
| srr24x7 | Luckily people are getting more and more aware of these topics so sooner or later those companies will have to do something.
However I believe, looking at our current progress, it will be far far too late. | 00:10:57 |
