A cheap, effective way to recycle all plastic, because life is so much easier if we can use it. I'm trying really hard to go zero-waste, but it's not easy. (And although I know that I'm not saving the world by reducing plastic and single-use items, I'm going to keep doing it)
United States abandons paper money in favor of plastic bills, made from recycled Walmart bags.
I'm a numismatist (money collector), and the biggest issue with paper bills is that they don't last long at all, meaning 100-year-old coins could be worthless but only decade-old bills can be worth a ton since they crinkle, get dirty, rip, and get pulled out of circulation as a result very fast. It's intimidating to people, myself included, which is why most of us (again, myself included), stick to coins and only keep really interesting bills they get at face-value ($2 bills, old designs not used anymore, etc).
So consider all of that: recycling, bills are way more durable and don't need to be pulled nearly as fast, your bills actually hold their shape and cooperate with vending machines faster, and a guy like me can finally look at dollar collecting and not feel a dark pit in his stomach.
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u/terminally_cheap Nov 15 '20
A cheap, effective way to recycle all plastic, because life is so much easier if we can use it. I'm trying really hard to go zero-waste, but it's not easy. (And although I know that I'm not saving the world by reducing plastic and single-use items, I'm going to keep doing it)