What made you sad today

Came across this article on recycling that depressed me somewhat: https://damnthematrix.wordpress.com/2026...recycling/

I had thought that the more we recycled, particularly plastic the better. Seems that plastic should all go to landfill till we stop using it. It didn't exist when I was young. Milk was in returnable bottles till after I was married.

A bit from the piece:

"The most dangerous aspect of the recycling myth is not just that it creates low-quality plastic—it’s that it acts as a Dispersion Engine.

The current ‘Green’ model takes a contained, manageable solid (a PET bottle) and ‘downcycles’ it into a high-surface-area product, such as a synthetic carpet or a fleece jacket.

This is biophysical insanity. We are effectively taking a solid waste problem and processing it into a format designed to shed. Every time you walk on that ‘recycled’ carpet or wash that fleece, it releases microfibres into the air and water.

We are building a machine that masticates our waste for us, pre-digesting it into microplastics so that it can more easily bypass biological defences and enter the food web. This is bio-contamination on a global scale.
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