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Kathleen Janoski's avatar

Whenever a city or government spouts the word "recycle" I have to laugh.

All those face masks and PPE just thrown into the trash.

They really can't be serious about recycling.

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Peter Imanuelsen's avatar

There's billions of face masks floating in the ocean right now...

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Kathleen Janoski's avatar

Which is incredibly disturbing...think of the harm to the ecosystem.

At least plastic bottles can be recycled if they can be scooped up from the water systems.

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Peter Imanuelsen's avatar

Meanwhile they are forcing us to use paper straws that suck to reduce plastic waste lol.

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Kathleen Janoski's avatar

When I was a kid growing up in the 1950s, all we had were paper straws.

They never held up until you were finished with your drink.

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Peter Imanuelsen's avatar

The ones now don't hold up either, plastic straws are so much better.

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Truth & Justice's avatar

Yes and if it really was a public health emergency, they wouldn't allow the masks to just be thrown anywhere and in the trash. They would have been treated like hazardous waste. People were taking them off and putting them on tables in restaurants when they ate!!! So the next person that comes and sits down now has extra "germs" on the table cloth, not less... What a racket.

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