Fun fact: we've learned to reuse rockets instead of dumping them in the ocean before we've learned that trick for plastic water bottles.
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the mistake you make here is using the word "we"
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. bottle recycling rate in the US is barely 20% and a lot of rest ends up in ocean trash gyres iirc. Trashing worse issue than waste
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. Some debate on whether there's net too much energy wasted in downcycling to lower grade plastic, but landfill > ocean at least imo
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dude you're on the internet you can't just say 'we' and exclude countries who have in fact learned that trick for plastic bottles.
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I guarantee the majority of the world has not learned that trick. You really think China and India do a good job there?
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we can put a man on the moon but we can’t get the jam into the exact centre of the jam doughnut
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cost-driven recycling. maybe we need to make each plastic water bottle cost tens of millions of USD?
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Once we start selling rockets at the convenience stores, this will change.



