Companies whose futures depend on plastic production are trying to persuade the federal government to allow them to put the label “recyclable” on plastic shopping bags and other items virtually guaranteed to end up in landfills and incinerators.

I switched to reusable shopping bags along with the rest of Colorado when they enacted a ban this year and honestly prefer them now. Once you get in the habit of bringing them to stores it’s easy.

  • _haha_oh_wow_@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    4·
    4 months ago

    More than 9/10 times, it’s not recyclable.

    Literally less than 10% all of the plastic in the history of plastic has been recycled.

    • Elleo@slrpnk.net
      2·
      4 months ago

      And the 10% that is, probably shouldn’t be. The recycling process releases massive quantities of micro-plastics into our waterways, and from there into our soil, and so into our food.