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TreasonousBastard

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1. Nestle was bad enough draining aquifers, and I don't see...
Tue Apr 26, 2022, 07:01 AM
Apr 2022

private equity doing any better.

But, the real problem is us. I don't see Poland Spring driving down the highways tossing bottles out the window. Sure, we could reuse Big Gulp containers, or buy our own bottles, but how many do?

These guys are at least giving us the chance to recycle, but we're not doing it. Most stuff we buy is in plastic. Frozen food, Chinese and other take out.. All in plastic.

My town has a recycling program largely on hold because China isn't buying our waste paper now and residents claim it's too much bother to seperate bean cans and plastic, much less read the numbers on the bottom of a takeout container.

It's us. It's always us.

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