Big polluters: One massive container ship equals 50 million cars
The Guardian has reported on new research showing that in one year, a single large container ship can emit cancer and asthma-causing pollutants equivalent to that of 50 million cars. The low grade bunker fuel used by the worlds 90,000 cargo ships contains ...
That "recycling" crap always seemed fishy to me. What about the environmental cost of the transportation?
The transportation is the cheap bit. The actual recycling is the expensive bit, and I highly doubt that they'd be selling the materials for a high enough price to justify a buyer.
Bandai has runs of Gunpla (Gundam model kits) that are called "Ecopla", which is essentially recycling their own plastic from defective runners to create new runners for kits, and that's truly the best way -- in house recycling to minimize waste.
But once it hits the consumer, that plastic is their plastic and isn't going to be recycled, just tossed into the garbage
When I was a kid, soda came in glass bottles instead of plastic. Grocery stores would collect and pay back deposits, then Coke & Pepsi would wash & refill the bottles. Guess who first lobbied municipal governments to start recycling programs? Soda companies. They didn't want the hassle and cost of collecting and reusing bottles; this way, the taxpayer would fund the recycling programs instead.