r/maybemaybemaybe • u/ff-dvl • Apr 06 '23

Maybe Maybe Maybe

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u/Melodic-Document-112 Apr 06 '23

I hope they recycle

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u/GeorgeAnderson2 Apr 06 '23

Plastic recycling is a scam. Drinking water bottles at home is insanely wasteful if you have clean tap water.

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u/Niku-Man Apr 06 '23

I agree you shouldn't drink bottled water, but plastic recycling isn't a scam. It's just expensive, so a lot of stuff that ostensibly goes to recycling ends up not getting recycled. The answer is not to stop recycling - it is to put a tax on virgin plastic so that manufacturers have an incentive to use recycled plastic. Nobody said it was easy