• jjjalljs
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    6 months ago

    Disposable plastic should be illegal. It’s cheap, but only because of all the externalized costs.

    • Thorny_Insight@lemm.ee
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      6 months ago

      In Finland 93% of plastic, glass and aluminium drink containers are returned back to the store and recycled into new ones.

      • urshanabi [he/they]@lemmygrad.ml
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        6 months ago

        thankfully if plastic is gone we wouldn’t be left with a majority of the hassle to deal with in the public sector, i.e. what another commenter called “externalized costs”

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      6 months ago

      Or they should be made so expensive that they only make sense when there really is no alternative.