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Some commercial waste disposal does sorting of recycling out of the waste, they will even ask for it to not be separated prior so that they don't have to transport it separately.
This is typically why you see this.
Whether that is a better way of doing it I don't know.
LOL I decided to follow the link and "Chat" is hilarious. Especially when you realize you should have no empathy for Mimi.
Yup. I'll try to upload them daily until I'm caught up.
Mocking environmentalism is nice until you can't drink the water from your tap because it has too much PFAS and microplastics in it. But go ahead, it's funny, I guess.
Please note that it's not a political comic. The series is about Mimi being a Chaotic evil gremlin.
Life became political when caring about each other and the earth became political.
Ok maybe not the best word, but you got the point. It's more of a light hearted comic than any statement
Just one look at mim and i know shes being sincere
plastic recycling is a way of producers to shift blame onto consumers and has been shown to not affect new plastic production basically at all, because recycled plastic just makes for worse plastic.
environmentalism is good, but plastic recycling is not going to make the world better.
There's 2 sides to every coin. Consumers were lied to, yes, but consumers also choose to buy plastic over glass. But that's not my problem with the comic. My problem is that it's the posterchild of "nothing I do matters anyway, so might as well not care and pollute". It also feels very much like a sarcastic excuse to people who tell others to clean up after themselves.
environmentalism is good, but plastic recycling is not going to make the world better.
Yes, but it can better than nothing. Shipping it off to a third-world country (which I think the EU finally banned) and then pointing at the country and saying "look, they don't recycle, it's not our fault" harms us all of course. Anyway, the comic rubs me the wrong way.
I think it's rubbing you the wrong way because you have an axe to grind with environmentalism apathy and this barely touching it makes it a lightning rod for your unfocused anger.
It reminds you of an issue you have that you can not solve and that usually makes people more on edge.
It's also unfortunately way off topic as it's about an evil person doing evil things. I can't say you are wrong to make the jumps together but it as a criticism kinda lacks any ability to follow through from the artist.
And it made you react which means as art it worked.
i mean the character also specifically says they're evil.
Consumers didn't price the glass higher than the plastic. Companies and lack of regulations did that.
Consoomers aren't to blame. Why? Because I'm a consoomer myself and I know I'm not to blame. Not even partially. I am completely absolved from any blame because I'm a consoomer. Where does it say so? I say so. I will consoom for the economy and that's how I participate in society.
I buy plastic bottles because I'm powerless. I buy big tech products because I'm powerless to their advertising. I buy non-fairtrade products because, you guessed it, powerless. I leave the tap on while brushing my teeth because industry uses millions of litres more than I ever could making products for me to consoom. I am powerless! I can consoom anything I like, whenever I like, however I like, because I'm a weak pawn with no independence.
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Nice strawman. You wanna set it on fire, or try using it on someone that it applies to?
Though, to be honest, plastic recycling is mostly a myth in in the first place. For most plastics, the "recycling" procedure consists of paying some impoverished country to let you dump them there.
Basically, every plastic bottle can be assumed to contribute to microplastics contamination sooner or later. Glass and aluminum bottles are better (as are cans); both of those are economically feasible to recycle.
That is all true, but still not an excuse to drop your plastic bottle beside a trash can and when called out about it go "it's all part of my evil plan". These kinds of comics, regardless of their intention, will be used as a reason for people to say "recycling doesn't work, so whatever I do, nothing will change, so I can pollute at will".
The comic does point out that the litterer is not a good person, though. You could argue that this cutesy depiction of a gleefully evil person serves to normalize misbehavior but it doesn't try to hide the fact that it's misbehavior.
Nowhere in the comic does it do that. It just shows a humanoid with cat ears.
I agree that Mimi is being a dick in this comic and that anyone acting like that in real life is a dick.
That being said, dropping the plastic bottle in the generic trash hole is something I could ignore. (And if your area has a bottle deposit I damn well expect you to put the bottle beside the trash can so less fortunate people can at least get your deposit – of course a gleefully evil person wouldn't do it in this case.)
Recycling isn't real. I love when I get scolded by my parents for not recycling when it's just going to the landfill
Reduce and reuse are real through. Single stream recycling is basically always a lie though
Oh god, she’s a mother?
According to the series, not yet, but I don't think it's a good idea for her to become one