Mensch, Marina

@skyfire101 we have a deposit system in Germany for all beverage bottles - others aren’t allowed any longer -but there are still too many that are not cleaned and reused but are PET bottles that need a lot of energy to be recycled into new bottles or other plastic things. The best recycling is re-use. siobhansarelle@tech.lgbt @cooopsspace @ajsadauskas @green

@siobhansarelle some online salesshops still use a lot of plastic packaging to prevent breaking. They could us paper or shredded hay etc. but prefer styrofoam or bubble wrap @cooopsspace @ajsadauskas @skyfire101 @green

@cooopsspace Trash is big business, especially when you can cheat. There is a lot of criminal things going on: legalized crimes. For example, EU allowed electronic trash to be delivered as “used goods” to African nations where (with the help of one or more corruptable politicians) these “used goods” end up in soil & water poisoning trash heaps in poverty stricken regions. som@ajsadauskas@aus.social @skyfire101 @green

@cooopsspace @ajsadauskas @skyfire101 @green

In EU it is about a third that is recycled, and still way too little.
With increased online shopping we get much more packaging material.
https://www.europarl.europa.eu/news/en/headlines/society/20181212STO21610/plastic-waste-and-recycling-in-the-eu-facts-and-figures