It might not seem like much yet, but it’s better than nothing
I’ve been hearing this line repeated ad nauseum since the 80s. Occasionally they pan out, but far more often you’re looking at a Google Graveyard of underfunded ideas and abandoned projects.
In this case “we’re going to turn the Texas Garbage Patch into sunglasses” doesn’t fill me with excitement.
Only using the plastic junk to make more plastic trinkets is not successfully recycling, no matter how they market it as such. It needs to be used for practical value products at least in part or it’s just another way of reformatting the trash
People will say this to pretend you shouldn’t criticize any incentives that have decent effects. Cleaning it and putting in landfills is better than oceans. But making more trash to be thrown out isn’t solving anything
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I’ve been hearing this line repeated ad nauseum since the 80s. Occasionally they pan out, but far more often you’re looking at a Google Graveyard of underfunded ideas and abandoned projects.
In this case “we’re going to turn the Texas Garbage Patch into sunglasses” doesn’t fill me with excitement.
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“No, I am not at all cynical, I have merely got experience, which, however, is very much the same thing.” - Oscar Wilde
Only using the plastic junk to make more plastic trinkets is not successfully recycling, no matter how they market it as such. It needs to be used for practical value products at least in part or it’s just another way of reformatting the trash
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People will say this to pretend you shouldn’t criticize any incentives that have decent effects. Cleaning it and putting in landfills is better than oceans. But making more trash to be thrown out isn’t solving anything
I literally have a pair of the sunglasses I bought many years ago when they first came out.
How is that trash, please explain.
You’re not wrong. Stuff like construction materials would be better. Hopefully this is a step towards that.