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Workaccount2 on April 22, 2024 | parent | context | favorite | on: Don't waste your time recycling plastic

Releasing all the CO2 from plastic would be an incredibly dumb move. Just shred it and pack it in old mines deep underground.

Iulioh on April 23, 2024 [–]

Energy is energy, we need that anyway.

And the amount of trash we produce is mind blowingly big, no mines are big enough for 1 day of trash collecting.

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