• Tachanka [comrade/them]
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      8 months ago

      the imperial core even outsources its waste so it can blame the periphery for being more wasteful.

      and this is on top of outsourcing production to places like China, and then blaming them for carbon emissions. Like Vijay Prashad said, “try to produce it in your own countries, and see your carbon emissions rise.”

    • ashinadash [she/her]
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      138 months ago

      Oh nice so there’s actually 100% no point in sorting the container recycling here? At work they make a big thing about sorting plastics properly, but the way my work does it versus the apartment down the street seems random; work puts tin cans and other metal right in with small plastics, whereas certain apartments separate plastic and metal. Does it all just go into the trash anyway?

      • Self_Sealing_Stem_Bolt [he/him, they/them]
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        158 months ago

        I’m pretty sure tin cans are the exception, maybe glass too. Those can be recycled if the will is there. Idk if it actually is or not, but yeah, we’ve been caught dumping our recycling in other countries plenty of times. One even sent it back lol

        • @sping
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          108 months ago

          Aluminum is extremely recyclable.

      • Acute_Engles [he/him, any]
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        68 months ago

        Usually corporations want you to sort the recycling because they will get charged a fee by the pickup company if they don’t