10
More time to do what exactly? Soft plastics are effectively unrecyclable. There are no commercial scale recycling plants in Australia which can recycle soft plastics. And even if we did build them the depolymerisation process which soft plastics require takes so much energy it'd be more environmentally sound to landfill it anyway.
The whole thing's a mess and really the only solution is to stop producing as much soft plastics.
Drown 'em in it.
Most of it came from them in the first place
Two wrongs make a right. Compress it all into beams and sheets, make bus shelters and illegally install them at every bus stop in the country.
(No that would require guts. They'd rather hope that holding onto it will give them more social license to send it to landfill)
this post was submitted on 30 May 2024
10 points (100.0% liked)
Aussie Enviro
905 readers
40 users here now
An Australian community for everything from your backyard to beyond the black stump.
🐢
Topics may include Aussie plants and animals, environmental, farming, energy, and climate news and stories (mostly Aus specific), etc.
🐧 Want a news or information source? Try one of these links below!
News
The New Daily
(Life, Sci, Envt)
John Menadue
(Pub Pcy/Climate)
National Indigenous Times
(Envt)
Science
Online Library.Wiley
(Srch Earliest)
Conservation
Australian Conservation Foundation ACF
Biodiversity Council
(Stories)
WWF, World-Wide Fund for Nature
WWF, World-Wide Fund for Nature
(Blogs)
Nature Conservation Council for NSW
Queensland Conservation Council
(Blog)
Environmental Defenders Office
Education Institutions
Australia National University
(News)
University of Queensland
(News)
University of the Sunshine Coast
(News)
University of Technology, Sydney
(News)
Queensland University of Technology
(News)
University of Southern Queensland
(News)
University of Melbourne
(News)
University of Adelaide
(Envt News)
University of Newcastle
(News)
University of New England
(Connect)
University of Western Australia
(News)
University of Western Sydney
(News Centre)
University of Tasmania
(News and Stories)
University of South Australia
(News)
Misc
Takvera (J,Englart)
(Climate Citizen Blog)
Australian Youth Climate Coalition
🐫
Trigger Warning: Community contains mostly bad environmental news (not by choice!). Community may also feature stories about animal agriculture and/or meat. Until tagging is available, please be aware and click accordingly.
🪲
Aussie Zone Rules.
- Golden rule - be nice. If you wouldn’t say it in front of your ~~grandmother~~ favourite tree, don’t post it.
- No bigotry - including racism, sexism, ableism, homophobia, transphobia, or xenophobia. You are allowed to denigrate invasive plants or animals.
- Be respectful. Everyone should feel welcome here. Except invasive plants or animals.
- No porn. Except photos of plants. Definitely not animals.
- No Ads / Spamming. Except for photos or stories about plants and animals.
- Nothing illegal in Australia. Like invasive plants or animals. Exotic microbes and invasive fungi also not welcome.
- Make post titles descriptive with no swear words. Comments are a free for all using the above rules as a guide. Fuck invasive plants and animals.
🐝
/c/Aussie Environment acknowledges the Traditional Owners of the land, sea and waters, of the area that we live and work on across Australia. We acknowledge their continuing connection to their culture and pay our respects to their Elders past and present.
founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS