This is no laughing matter. I’m way short of time this morning, so let me just say I’m almost done reading at great book entitled Waste Wars: The Wild Afterlife of your Trash, published this yr. Author Alexander Clapp has done excellent sleuthing to amass a trove of information, + I have several pages of notes in the back to be transcribed into my computer. Much of recycling is a scam pushed by the petroleum industries to think the approximately 100,000 types [not 7] of plastic are actually recyclable. And that they are shoving responsibility onto consumers for the plastification of the planet. This cartoon—with its ‘chasing arrows emblem’—seems apropos considering what revelations I am discovering.
