{"id":3090,"date":"2019-05-15T17:46:37","date_gmt":"2019-05-15T17:46:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ensoplastics.com\/theblog\/?p=3090"},"modified":"2019-05-15T17:46:39","modified_gmt":"2019-05-15T17:46:39","slug":"exposing-the-plastic-recycling-lie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ensoplastics.com\/theblog\/?p=3090","title":{"rendered":"Exposing the Plastic Recycling Lie"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Exposing Australia\u2019s recycling lie | 60 Minutes Australia\" width=\"625\" height=\"352\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/lqrlEsPoyJk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><figcaption> <br>Although this video focuses on Australia we have the identical situation here in the United States.  How much more obvious does it need to be before sustainability managers \u201cget a clue\u201d that recycling plastics is 0% about environmental responsibility.  Somehow people have gotten the impression that recycling is synonymous with being good for the environment.  9 out of 10 times LCA data on recycling plastics indicate we should be looking for other solutions to our plastic pollution issue.   <br><br>It\u2019s a downright shame that our recycling efforts over the past decades have resulted in massive plastic pollution in our oceans and to the planet.  Unfortunately, noble cause corruption has resulted in good intentions being blindly pursued by so many essentially creating the \u201creligion of recycling\u201d.  This blind pursuit has resulted in some of the worst polluting the planet has ever seen, and it\u2019s still happening.  Let\u2019s stop being irresponsible and stop promoting unsubstantiated feel-good gimmicks about recycling.   Please, let\u2019s begin using facts, data and science to drive environmental and sustainability efforts for our plastic waste.  <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1454,835,1549,1550,291],"class_list":["post-3090","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-environmental-responsibility","tag-plastic-recycling","tag-reclying","tag-recycling-lie","tag-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ensoplastics.com\/theblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3090","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ensoplastics.com\/theblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ensoplastics.com\/theblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ensoplastics.com\/theblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ensoplastics.com\/theblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3090"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ensoplastics.com\/theblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3090\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3091,"href":"https:\/\/ensoplastics.com\/theblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3090\/revisions\/3091"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ensoplastics.com\/theblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ensoplastics.com\/theblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ensoplastics.com\/theblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}