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Reuse repair and recycle are in this order for a reason.
Companies should use recycle as a last resort. And especially should consider repair when producing items.
However people buy cheap new shit more often than try to repair sth.
Fuck consum economy
the order is actually Reduce, Reuse, and Recycle.
i think it's reconsider (buying this product), reuse, recycle
Isn't it Reny, Refend, Repose?
that's the anarchic stance. mine was more a chemical/technical one.
Some stuff has to be consumed, like food. And that's a major problem with plastic. Plastic is being used to protect and preserve foods, but it's also being used as a cheap binding for shipments.
The right solution introduces an added logistic hurdle to send back packaging for reuse and to reprocess/clean that packaging.
There is actually a way out of this, but marketers hate it. It's standardized reusable containers and outlawing or severely limiting the use of plastic and inks for product distribution.
Sure, it'd turn our grocery stores into a warehouse-like feel, but it would also make it easy and possible for reuse and recycle centers to process and redistribute packaging with very minimal waste.
It'd also make it a lot harder for companies to play the shrinkflation game.
Standardization like this does wonders.
Sometimes the only option is to buy the cheap shit too and it pisses me off. Theres so many times where I want a quality version of some tool or item and I can only find the item in cheap materials barely different than any other version. Ive started even designing my own stuff and going through sendcutsend or having it manufactured otherwise
Or there is only a cheap option or an option over 10x as expensive with no middle ground.