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21 sats \ 3 replies \ @Msd0457890 14h \ on: 'Recycling' Makes Plastic Pollution Worse | The Libertarian Institute econ
Although your argument about recycling not saving the world sounds very coherent, there are a few things that I don't understand because at least I am in Latin America, exactly in Peru, and I see how people collect plastic and cardboard, they pay them in Fiat for it, and I also see how containers or trucks of recycled plastic pass by in squares, which I imagine will go through a process and will be used for other types of things, just like paper, just like things made of iron or metal, so it's hard to think that this whole process won't lead to a purification of our environment, talking about the contamination of beaches, rivers, jungles, all that which human beings have contaminated and that all these recycling plans have tried to help to purify.
The article describes how a very large percentage of plastics end up being incinerated rather than recycled. That's quite a bit worse than burying them in a landfill.
I'd be curious to know who's paying people for collecting those materials. If it's private recycling centers who then sell to private manufacturers, then there's a good chance that recycling activity is worthwhile.
It's not that recycling, per se, is bad. The issue is that recycling, de facto, is often worse.
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They are not private entities, they are people who set up a place as a deposit and accumulate plastic, for example, I am dedicated to this and I bring you a certain amount of plastic and you give me an amount of fiat money, in this case soles, they pay for the plastic at a certain price and they accumulate it and I imagine that they sell it to the large recyclers.
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Yeah, my question is about whether those large recyclers are private enterprises or if they're state funded programs.
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