My favorite was living in Japan, where they are very serious about making you wash and segregate different categories plastic, which is set out in expensive, clear bags so that any mistakes can be caught (and rejected) by the garbagemen. And then it goes to the dump. https://twitter.com/ayanaeliza/status/1315491490496380928 …
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Replying to @Pinboard
eh? plastics are massively recycled there, PET bottles alone had a collection rate of 92.2% + a recycling rate of 84.8% according to The Japan Times, and everything else is reused.. for the absurd amt of plastics that they use, they have very few garbage dumps from what-
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I remember, but I lived on the rural eastern coast, so my experience may be different. Beyond that though- it just doesn’t make sense for Japan to have massive landfills like the US with such limited real-estate...
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I should have said incinerator instead of dump. Most Japanese plastic is burned, if I remember right.
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