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burke_holland on Sept 11, 2020 | parent | context | favorite | on: Pringles tube tries to wake from 'recycling nightm...

Given that most recycling ends up in landfills anyway, I’m not sure it matters much. We have a much bigger recycling problem.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/29/climate/recycling-landfil...

throwaway2245 on Sept 11, 2020 [–]

It matters because these problems feed into each other.

If a tonne of recycling is not financially viable because the Pringles cans are too difficult to extract, then none of it gets recycled.

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