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PsychYYZ t1_j5kshgr wrote

Not to be sassy... But once we filter them out... Then what? We put them somewhere else, from where they escape or leak back into the environment again?

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TheCrimsonSteel t1_j5ls3oe wrote

Basically.

Our general tactics of dealing with waste as it gets worse can be summed up as:

Landfill

Seal it up, then Landfill

Mix it with concrete, Seal that up, Landfill

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Tutorbin76 t1_j5mjedc wrote

Which, quite frankly, is where they all should have gone in the first place if they can't be reused or recycled.

Incredible that so much of this stuff just gets dumped into the ocean somehow.

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