Reduce, reuse, recycle.
But:
- In order to reduce, there need to be proper infrastructure to compensate for the thing being reduced;
- In order to reuse, things need to be durable and easily maintainable, modularly upgradable and repairable;
- If you go to the recycle step ignoring the first two, you've already lost.
As we see, just "changing consumer habits" doesn't work.
Thanks for coming to my TED talk.
@drq recycling was always a scam. bunch of PR shit by places like Coke to stop paying for bottle washing
@icedquinn @drq @Parienve it's the problem with recycling: it's competing with cheap, clean and readily available resources. If those disappear (or get expensive) recycling starts naturally.
tetrapaks are apparently expensive to strip back down because of all the compositing. and they won't biodegrade otherwise.
making stuff that lasts a hundred years isn't really the problem it's that we don't just clean and reuse it.