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Recycling was once proposed not because it was a viable mitigation but because companies knew it would be an effective distraction. [0]

I'm not saying recycling or carbon capture is all bad. But they should be last resorts. That's why it's reduce, then reuse yourself, then recycle if there's no alternative.

[0] https://www.npr.org/2020/09/11/897692090/how-big-oil-misled-...



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