China Bans Foreign Waste – What Will Happen to the World's Recycling?
Reposted from a few days ago...  incredibly relevant to this post.<p>I urge you to stop believing in recycling.<p>Here&#x27;s some things to think about:<p>The &quot;packaging&quot; industry, is in fact a nice way of saying the &quot;garbage manufacturing&quot; industry.<p>At least in Australia, the &quot;recycling industry&quot; is owned by the &quot;packaging industry&quot;. Hmmm.. why is that? It put it to you that the garbage manufacturing industry has in fact worked out how to &quot;own&quot; the environmental movement by pushing &quot;recycling&quot; as the &quot;balance&quot; to the spewing forth of garbage from the packaging industry. The packaging industry must be laughing so hard at how easily it has owned the environmental movement.
Have you ever wondered if all that packaging you put in your recycle bin gets recycled? It&#x27;s a question worth thinking about.<p>I have come to believe that recycling, which environmentalists embrace deeply as a core value, is in fact just a smokescreen that allows everyone to feel OK about the garbage manufacturing industry creating an unending quantity of plastics that have made their way into every nook and cranny of our ecosystem.<p>Please, stop believing in recycling.... if you recycle, then you do not question the unbelievable, and unrecyclable, quantity of plastic packaging that you consume.
One you stop believing in recycling, you start to ask the question, &quot;why the heck do we permit the packaging industry to create this unstoppable flow of garbage&quot;
Seems to me that world MUST eventually move to a solution which is a set of standardised containers for all products, which are durable, washable, have a refund value attached, and may have paper corporate brand stuck on them after being washed.<p>Another strategy worth bringing forward is the idea of &quot;garbage brands&quot;..... showing off all those precious brands but in their true context... as garbage in our creeks, rivers and oceans, drains and footpaths. Once brands start to become associated with garbage, they might rethinkg whether they want their names and logos on the digusting mess destroying our environment.<p>Please, stop believing in recycling and the smokescreen will clear and you will start to ask questions about the packaging industry and our community&#x2F;commercial system that supports it.
Asbestos, tobacco, sugary foods, packaging - all industries that have fooled us into believing things that are wrong but served their own ends. The packaging industry has fooled us into thinking that it is OK because recycling exists.