the amount of money it costs to "recycle" everything but aluminum cans is far more expensive than making new products instead. this inefficiency means recycling creates more economic waste than it solves. it has gotten to the point where over 90% of "recyclables" just go into the landfill regardless, meaning that segregating them was a total waste. the small percent of stuff that DOES get recycled is sorted out at the landfill itself by big machines so it's pointless to try to sort at the household level. Plastics, especially, are almost never recycled because it does not make economic sense.
the idea that landfills were going to "run out" is laughable and proven false decades ago. numerous innovations and efficiencies with landfills have made them effectively infinite. they just get built up sustainably like mountains now.
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the amount of money it costs to "recycle" everything but aluminum cans is far more expensive than making new products instead. this inefficiency means recycling creates more economic waste than it solves. it has gotten to the point where over 90% of "recyclables" just go into the landfill regardless, meaning that segregating them was a total waste. the small percent of stuff that DOES get recycled is sorted out at the landfill itself by big machines so it's pointless to try to sort at the household level. Plastics, especially, are almost never recycled because it does not make economic sense.
the idea that landfills were going to "run out" is laughable and proven false decades ago. numerous innovations and efficiencies with landfills have made them effectively infinite. they just get built up sustainably like mountains now.
Huh, never heard about any of this. Guess I was fed misinformation about this the whole time and I didn't even noticed. Thank you for your explanation