That Caprisun you drank when you were six is still there, maybe a bit faded but still there. Lying in a growing landfill of single used plastic from millions of other people. Being able to persist for thousands of years. I know humans have the "Out of sight, out of mind" mentality, but I getting a bit scared for the future.
>>5105037Why can't they just rocket this shit to the sun?
>>5105037I could really go for a capri sun right about now.
>>5105054Too expensive
Normies kvetch about a single plastic bag but go 5x on vacation across the globe every year
>>5105047This. What the fuck am i supposed to do about it?
>>5105089WORRY
>>5105037Thirdies are the ones who dont burry it.
>>5105037Pretty much all plastic is made from oil. Oil that was sitting in the ground for millions of years. Putting that modified oil back into the ground (perhaps after a round or two of recyling) is probably the least bad thing you can do with it, if you are not willing to give up plastics entirely.
>>5105054just throw it in a volcano
>>5105118Is there a reason to not do this?
Some sort of bacteria or fungus will evolve to eat microplastics.
>>5105037>plastics made from earth>putting it back in the earth is bad>????????
>>5105148Are you eating poop because it's made from food?
>>5105148>plastics made from earth?????>putting it back in the earth is bad???????????????????????????
>>5105151Your body has iron in itSo you wont mind getting stabbed, right?
>>5105152The iron in a steel knife is natural; I won't be injured, retard.
>>5105135The fact that it would be a logistical nightmare, not really make the trash disappear like you think it would, and emit a catastrophic amount of poisonous gasses.
>>5105148You're incredibly retarded
>>5105037Yeah giga corps can think if a way to solve it between 2 child fucking sessions, not my problem.
>>5105146It's way too slow. I think it would be best if we tried to genetically engineer a plastic-eating mold ourselves.
>>5105170It would be cool at first, but imagine if the fungus gets out of control>gnawing on car parts>causing economic crises by destroying the production of certain industries>devouring catheters and other hospital equipment
>>5105146They turn microplastics into nanoplastics which enter your cells even easier
>>5105173And the downsides?
>>5105176You're also full of plastic so you get eaten too
>>5105180I'm already made up entirely of things that molds and bacteria would like to digest
>>5105180We're also made out of water, meat and other crap and yet we're still here.
>>5105054We don't actually have a rocket that can go to the sun. Even the most efficient new rockets are still ~95% fuel by weight at launch, and that's enough to brute force a few tons of payload up to ~20000 mph. The earth is moving at 70,000 mph around the sun, so to drop anything straight down into the sun you'd need another 50,000 mph back in the direction we came from. Even if you could magically reassemble and refuel the entire rocket once it's in orbit that still wouldn't be enough. Repeated gravity slingshots off of the moon could probably take a fat slice off the needed velocity.
>>5105181And now RecyFungus(tm) wants to eat your balls too
>>5105187How are we defining "going to the sun" here? Won't things in space retain momentum by default, so it will fall into the sun slowly? It's not a big deal if it takes a long time, that's better than it staying on Earth.
>>5105037Not my problem.
>>5105150use it to grow more
>>5105150I eat my gfs poop, yes
>>5105037What the fuck are you talking about? I don't know what shithole you live in, but here recycling has gotten to the point of parody.I have a trash can for general trash that doesn't fit anywhere else, one for metal and glass, one for food and other bio, and one for paper. I also have a bag for plastic that's picked up the same day as the paper trash.Granted, they supposedly only recycle a fraction of the plastic that we put out for recycling, but it's not like it ends up in a landfill. It gets burned for energy.I've got so little trash for my main trashcan that I only really put it out once every three months or so (even if they pick it up once a week). Everything else goes in some kind of recycling bin.
they will probably bioengineer some bacteria or whatever that can digest them. or some other solution, i don't knowit's the same with climate change, or deforestation, etc. all of that is a very bad side effect of human nature and technology, but most likely technology advances fast enough that we will be able to clean up all the messes that we are leaving behind, so we don't need to be too depressed about it now. obviously we shouldn't ignore it eitherit's a cycle, each generation of tech will be able to fix the side effects created by the previous one. that's how human nature works, it makes us progress, and that has a cost, but sooner or later we focus the tools given to us by the progress towards fixing/controlling the cost
>>5105054It unironically takes less energy to fling something out of the solar system than to drop it into the sun.
>>5105037>I know humans have the "Out of sight, out of mind" mentalitywell that, but also the part where a lot of rich and powerful people who want to get even more rich and powerful benefit from us not caring about the planet.
>>5105342Blaming environmental problems on the average joe is a psyop to make you feel guilty for things you are in no way responsible for.Yes don't litter and dump chemicals and shit into the environment, but we aren't responsible for the giant pile of trash in the ocean or the whole in the ozone. No I won't feel guilty about eating steak while you are flying in a private jet every week to go to a meeting.
>>5105153Maybe I'll cut you with a plastic knife then. One that's not BPA free.
>>5105037it's poisoning wildlife
