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Man decides it’s just easier to become climate change denier than waste his life washing out food containers (newsthump.com)

submitted 6 months ago by Nero@sopuli.xyz to c/theonion@midwest.social

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[–] Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.world 189 points 6 months ago (16 children)

The real joke is how annoying it is to clean plastic waste before recycling it, only for it to end up not getting recycled at all

We have been played for actual fools

[–] Abrinoxus 23 points 6 months ago

Cleaning plastic for recycling and believing it gets recycled is important to make people accept plastic in their lives. It was never really about recycling.

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