Recycling plastic.
We should just not use plastic.
Recycling paper and metal is still ok afaik
this post was submitted on 11 Dec 2025
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Plastic is bad
Recycled paper uses more energy than new paper... Recycling metal, glass and such is a bargain though.
“Recycling cardboard only takes 75% of the energy required to make new cardboard”
Good thing I was talking about paper
“The process of recycling paper saves significant amounts of energy compared to producing new paper from raw materials.”
https://www.recyclingtoday.org/blogs/news/how-much-energy-is-saved-by-recycling-paper
See also
https://archive.epa.gov/wastes/conserve/materials/paper/web/html/index-2.html
The goal posts -- they move!
I'm not saying whether this person is correct, but paper and cardboard are very different products with different production requirements.
Energy but what about trees?
Trees can't grow forever. They get attacked by shrooms, natural fires, etc...
Combatting climate change is much better done by limiting fossil fuel burning in the first place.
pest is a problem for monocrop like the montery pines,
Burn it. With fire. In a proper industrial icinerator. That is the safest way to dispose of it.
Just stop making it. The average person doesn't get to choose how much plastic is in the production process for their items. We need laws to stop mega corporations destroying the planet for a tiny bit more profit.
We need oil to be more expensive but energy to be cheaper. Then more energy-intensive but more environmentally friendly alternatives can be used instead of (traditional) plastic.
Example: If energy was basically unlimited and free, suddenly the weight of glass as a product container doesn't matter so much anymore. Same for steel and weirder things like products made out of thick, industrially-pressed fungus (which is a real thing, haha).