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Environment & Energy

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4. The news a while back that plastic recycling contributes to microplastics in the water rattled me a bit.

Tue Jan 9, 2024, 05:59 PM

Jan 2024

Sooooooo we can't recycle this crap without making the negative impacts even worse?

Technology doesn't have an answer either.

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I have thought for a long time that evolution has no answer to plastics. [View all] Rustynaerduwell Jan 2024 OP

I remember reading last year or so dweller Jan 2024 #1

evolution is fairly slow process in complex life forms Voltaire2 Jan 2024 #2

The idea of plastics in my brain... Rustynaerduwell Jan 2024 #3

Yes, we stopped recycling our plastic after learning more about that Lulu KC Jan 2024 #5