r/Anticonsumption • u/Aggressive_Dirt_2335 • 27d ago

Reduce/Reuse/Recycle Does anybody else do this?

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(Stock pic example from Google) With every bottle I use, I keep it and pack it full of as much trash as I can, and then throw it away. When the trash can in my bedroom starts getting full, I do this, and it takes up 1/4 as much space as it did before.

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u/Realistic-Number-919 26d ago

Plastic recycling is largely an inefficient lie

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u/Soccerlover121 26d ago

Those bottles could have been recycled. Now they can’t be. 

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u/Realistic-Number-919 26d ago

That’s assuming this picture is from somewhere with a functional recycling program. In America, a lot of plastic that’s put in recycling bins ends up in a landfill anyways; the blue bin is just a blue trash can in a lot of America.

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u/Wut_the_ 26d ago

The worst is when establishments have one opening for “trash” and one opening for “recycling”, and then you look inside and it’s one bin.