Forget about litter. Forget about recycling. Get political.
An interesting view on some of the paradoxes of recycling. I can’t say I agree with all of it, but there are extremely valid points in there, especially on the feel-good factor as a substitute for real sacrifice.
More dust being swept under the carpet: a large part of the waste that we all separate for recycling is shipped off to the far east where little is known about how or if it is recycled.
Steve Jobs responds to the Greenpeace campaign against Apple.
The truth about recycling.
Going green but getting nowhere.
I never knew the plastics industry had co-opted the recycling symbol in order to reduce people's image of plastic as an environmental issue. Bleak but not particularly surprising.
Do you need a new phone or can you just replace the battery instead?
Bloomberg reporters placed tracking devices in plastic bags to see what happened to them. They made quite a journey and revealed how obscure and problematic the recycling business can be.
It made me wonder about how local recycling is processed but all I could find was vague rhetoric.
