Environment & Energy

I can't wait until it's understood that there's no such thing as plastics recycling that is cleaner than landfilling, which is far from clean. I was once a believer and now I know I was fooled. Buy glass, buy cardboard, buy metal, or just don't buy. We'll never get rid of plastic in things like medical equipment, cars, etc. but being fooled into plastic containers is a gigantic sham. Argh. But then people pay for tap water in those bottles, so I need to go center myself before my head starts spinning.

Oh--and in a similar article I read a couple of years ago when I was researching recycling for a presentation, I learned that those greeting cards that make music when you open them have tiny electronic things that are really great at igniting a fire in a recycling facility if they hit the sorter just wrong, as are vaping pens.