I’ve always thought it was a huge waste of time, and the only purpose was “raising consciousness.” <\/p>\n
This article summarizes many of the things I’ve read over the years: Plastic Recycling Doesn\u2019t Work and Will Never Work<\/a> <\/p>\n One thing the article misses is that much of that “recycled” plastic we and others ship to Asia ends up in the ocean. It would be far better in a landfill. <\/p>\n Recycling makes sense for computer parts, used oil, and a few other things. But recycling glass and plastic is just a waste of time and effort. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I’ve always thought it was a huge waste of time, and the only purpose was “raising consciousness.” This article summarizes many of the things I’ve read over the years: Plastic Recycling Doesn\u2019t Work and Will Never Work One thing the article misses is that much of that “recycled” plastic we and others ship to Asia … Continue reading “I’ve never bothered recycling plastic”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2554","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2554","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2554"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2554\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2555,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2554\/revisions\/2555"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}