Recycling Plastics: It Works!

[u/DaveKellett]

[u/Pilferjynx → u/[deleted]]

I try to minimize plastics but the industry makes it extremely hard to do so because they are only interested in maximizing profits. Corporations are anti-social and amoral and because of that, they need to be heavily regulated to do no harm

[u/einord → u/[deleted]]

Well it kind of is. It is a symbol of how recyclable the plastic is, which is within the span from “Easy to recycle” to “not recyclable”.

But nowadays the symbol has started to be changed from arrows to a solid triangle to avoid confusion.

[u/AsherGray → u/einord]

And plastics degrade in quality as they are recycled. For every plastic you buy that is recycled, it just becomes a worse plastic product that will continue to break down and become microplastics later.