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Even the crying Indian was fake! Buy and use glass! Never microwave anything in plastic. Manufacturers will switch back to glass if consumers push back enough. We're full of plastic nanoparticles! This needs to stop.

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Never microwave anything. Never microwave.

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Yes, don't own one at all. A complete waste of energy.

I've wondered if there is an emf attack if they don't explode in people's homes, along with their smart appliances.

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Whoa, never thought about that! Makes sense huh.

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I use it to kill bacteria on kitchen sponges.

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I don’t own a microwave but after every time I finish washing the dishes I squeeze it completely dry and let it air dry on the edge of this little glass dish that I keep my drain plugs in. That gives it lots of air circulation. I’ve never had a stinky sponge. I use cellulose sponges. I always wring everything as dry as possible and let air dry with lots of circulation. The stinky sponge only happens when they’re not wrung dry or allowed to air dry and have proper circulation. Several people I know leave their sponges wet. I had to teach my own mother and sister this trick! They both get stinky sponges. No microwave required!

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And proven by certain folk (quickly silenced) that it destroys vitamin content of your food

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Yes, and most glass jars with their lids can be reused almost indefinitely at home, even if those pesky labels have to be laboriously taken off. Canning jars may be more effective for hot-canning, but many reused glass jars can hold dried items from the food garden, rice, beans, and pasta and can even be vacuumed sealed:

https://youtu.be/EaIV_2YBjeg

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Absolutely! I have a pantry full of them.

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Never microwave anything in anything.

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Careful using the term “greenhouse gas”. It’s been weaponized by the climate scam pushers. C02 is called a greenhouse gas because it is literally pumped into greenhouses to make plants grow.

Just the other morning I watched the local waste management company pick up the neighbors garbage, which she diligently sorts and puts the recycling into a special bin, and dump both bins into the same truck right on top of each other. Yup, another giant scam!

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Recycling came from liberal idiots trying to scare us. That why it is totally fake. There are no tests to find out how plasticized anyone really is. There are no tests or data that show how different plastics might shed into humans. Now that I notice how much plastic I come into contact with almost everyday, it is spooky to think it might all be poison. Then again, I have am in my 70's so my expose has been decades long. My doc will likely suggest I take some pills or get an anti-plastic vaccination.

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I've known about the scam of recycling ♻️ for years, since garbage collectors I spoke to told me that I don't have the separate recyclable and general waste because it is going into the same pile of things.

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Glad for confirmation I can share. A year ago, my 16 yr old granddaughter showed off her new water bottle. She was bemoaning all the plastic bottles in the ocean. I told her about how it was when I was a kid. Manufacturers delivered milk, juice, soda to the stores in bottles. We bought the product, rinsed the bottle and returned it to the store for a few pennies. Manufacturer picked up empties, sanitized, refilled and brought the product to the stores. Her eyes lit up.... "So... they cut out steps and now blame us! It's not all our fault! It encouraged me to have her exhibit some logical thinking.

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Thank you geoengineeringwatch.org Dane Wigington documentary The Dimmimg

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On a 7 day boat trip to Lombok we collected all out rubbish. When we were a bout a mile from the dock terminal the Indonesian crew tipped our recycling in the sea. Granted, they kept all the shells of the turtles that they had been eating during the trip. Same trip I went for a walk to the end of a beach in Nusa Lembongan. At the cove at the end of the beach was inches deep in aa and aaa batteries. It was an amazing tidal anomaly. This was 1997.

Ah, such fond memories of travel in paradise!

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Thank you.

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OK, I knew that about plastics. Where does the cardboard and paper end up?

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Paul Soloman, who was a correspondent for the PBS Nightly Business Report, which ran on PBS until 2019, did a report on recycling in the 1990's exposing it all as a scam except for aluminum recycling. It's too expensive. Scrap steel/iron is also now recycled and is profitable. Fluoride, a toxin that lowers IQ in children, and can cause bone cancer, is a byproduct of aluminum smelting which is why it is dumped in our water. There's really no credible evidence it does anything to prevent tooth decay. Thankfully, a federal judge just ruled that it does lower IQ in children, and now municipalities are removing it but there's pushback from lobbyists for pediatricians, and dentists. These people are sick motherf@#ers.

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In the UK, local government tell us which numbers to recycle, off the top of my head, there are 3. If any numbers are shown, they are so small one needs a magnifying glass to read it! Most don't bother to check, plus, different councils state different numbers. UK recycles around the same %. Our local council has a state of the art furnace, I visited on a tour, which converts it to electricty to heat homes, so they tell us. Seems obvious now that this is where 90% recycling goes. No-one asked the right questions re fumes and residual ash.

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Ya know, maybe they need to be reminded that coal does too. Boy, we have so much that needs to be relearned.

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I saw my bin man a few years ago put all my house waste in the same bin lorry. I said to him. Why Do I have 2 bins one box for paper when you have just put it all in the same truck. He said. “We separate it back at the depot.’ Never recycled anything since.

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You know it’s so interesting. You wrote this article! I’ve known for several decades that may be less than 30% of what you sent to recycle actually gets used. So then when my village basically forces us to recycle, because they actually charge us for every garbage bag of high amount… I won’t even go there…

So for the most part, I don’t recycle unless if it’s way too much stuff. And we’re not structured very well here… So you have to go to a large recycling center to put glass and cardboard, but they won’t accept plastic… Only the grocery stores accept plastic.

The most part I just throw everything into the bin… With exception of electrical cords, and lightbulbs and batteries… I do recycle those. Because people can also go through your trash and if they find that you’re throwing out something that should be recycled? They will call the police and they will mail you a ticket.

I also did a cost analysis if I went to the recycling center. I would need to go twice a month, it would take about a half an hour to load everything into my car, because I have to walk out to get the car from remote parking lot, pulled up beside the apartment, go up and down the stairs several times. And then drive to the cycling center. Of which there’s usually a wait. So on average , between loading up the car, driving to the cyclist center, waiting we’re looking at 1.5 to 2 point hours per trip

Now let’s add to the factory recycling center is open only three days a week in the afternoon for four hours

It is open on Saturday, but it’s absolutely preposterous. It’s only in the early morning.

So we’re looking at I would actually have to take off work to recycle, that’s four hours worth of billing. Not including the gas, the wear and tear on the car.

Plus, I would have to pay a membership fee of 300 a year to get into the recycling center

So you’re looking on average between wear and tear in the car, petrol, what I would lose on an hourly rate as a consultant… That’s 400 a month. +35 a month for the Access card.

So you’re telling me that I should spend $5000 worth of my time every year to haul things up to the recycling center when only less than 30% will be recycled?

Screw that! Tin can is going into the trash

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My son worked for a while at a place where people dropped off recyclables and plastic grocery bags. He said they threw it in a trash dumpster at night with all the other garbage. It was just there to make the company look "green".

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In case you're open to delving in an even deeper rabbit hole consider this:

Firstly, watch a few clips on Scandinavian waste to energy infrastructure and recycling. Finland's robotic sorting facilities, Sweden's importing of waste to burn which is the main source of heating homes - they even have one incinerator devoted to burning clothes.

Let's then hop over to Florida. State with most investment in waste to burn. Big plans ahead! Tampa Florida, to be hit by a destructive hurricane today has big plans for waste to energy which requires collaboration and finances to underground utility lines and get old structures compliant with new plans.

Buncombe county (SC hardest hit by hurricane) has huge plans, incentives, and money in place for green energy infrastructure. Perhaps the devastation will hasten rebuilding compliant new infrastructure... (I wonder how many of their 22 assisted living communities were located right next to streams and creeks?).

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100% agree. Plastic credit will only consolidate bizness on plastic waste, therefore making these bizness being depandant on profit made by credits. So instead of getting ride of plastic waste, we will cultivate more for bigger $$$ gain. Similar wicked bizness model for many other poison on earth. Put that way, the most foolish of us will gladly help them build our own prison

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Seems the old ebm/indus classic album fits here:

Zero Defects - Non Recycleable (1994) FULL ALBUM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GIcqnghnpmo

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