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Plastic containers don’t need to be melted down and remade into anything; they can be cleaned and reused. But we just throw them away, or send them to be recycled immediately, and still consume more; completely ignoring the first two R’s.
Except a plastic bottle start leaking cancerous shit after a week or so iirc
https://edition.cnn.com/2024/01/08/health/bottled-water-nanoplastics-study-wellness/index.html
gnutella