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The Myth of Plastic Recycling. (slrpnk.net)
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[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 day ago (2 children)

there have been several articles exposing plastic recycling as green washing. unfortunately they never make it to mainstream media

https://www.npr.org/2022/10/24/1131131088/recycling-plastic-is-practically-impossible-and-the-problem-is-getting-worse

i saw a chart somewhere showing less than 1% of plastic in use today is recycled but I can't find it now

[–] [email protected] 16 points 23 hours ago (2 children)

Sad that NPR is not considered "mainstream" these days. Maybe Joe Rogan will post something to Facebook about it?

[–] [email protected] 13 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago) (1 children)

NPR is definitely mainstream

I think the word you're looking for is "corporate" or "for-profit". Thats what they're not.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

fwiw I agree, but it doesn't appear to be considered mainstream by the guy I was replying to.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

ha. i was wrong. NPR has 44 million weekly listeners. that probably qualifies as mainstream media.

I thought npr had 10 times fewer listeners than that. (fyi NPR is the only radioi listen to)

https://blog.marketenginuity.com/by-the-numbers-who-is-actually-listening-to-public-radio

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 hours ago

I thought npr had 10 times fewer listeners

If you want to be depressed, Joe Rogan has 10 times that for single episodes.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 21 hours ago

Was it ever? It seems substantially more popular now than it used to be 20 years ago, with them getting in on the ground floor of the podcast game and all.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago)

unfortunately they never make it to mainstream media

Sounds like this "mainstream media" is not doing its job. This might have some kinds of implications for the current state of affairs in the USA. Can't put my finger on exactly what though.