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Amazon says its plastic packaging can be recycled. An investigation finds it usually isn't. | Grist (grist.org)
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[-] skulkingaround@sh.itjust.works 5 points 7 months ago

Pretty much everything I order off Amazon comes in paper packaging these days. Getting a plastic or bubble mailer is pretty rare.

One disappointing thing though: the ink in almost every printing process is some form of polymer which ends up as micro plastics that long outlive the paper they were printed on. Of course, still way better than wholly plastic mailers, just not perfect.

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