🎓 Dr. Freemo 🇳🇱 @freemo@social.cleverlibre.org

Interesting fact of the day: One gallon of gasoline weighs 6.3 lbs and when burned produces 20 lbs of CO2

@stux It isnt as small as it looks from this image. If your eyes were sensative enough to light that you could see it with the naked eye it would appear 6x larger than the size of the moon in the sky.

Not all heroes wear capes.

@funny

@axxss Have you tried sky ginger, it is ground ginger's mortal enemy!

@worldsendless

I suspect the delay is to deal with delete and redraft issues that would arise, not sure though.

@writh

@danny

Thats a very human reaction, but in a way it isnt anymore upstream nor is it ant less empowering. In fact kinda the opposite if you think about it.

If you reduce 1 gallon of gasoline my rough estimate suggests you'd be eliminating around 5 lbs of plastic from being produced. Plastic is pretty light so thats a LOT of plastic by volume.

If you take a train for a long trip rather than drive you could be eliminating enough plastic to fill a room.

You are more empowered than ever before, you were just focusing on the wrong things to drive change is all.

@yarmo

@waltercool People in hollywood have entire careers based on attention. It shouldnt surprise anyone they are going to say whatever helps their popularity at the time, and little more.

@danny

I agree tackling it from both ends is great. My point though is that how you tackle it from the consumer end, if you wish to have a positive impact, looks a lot different than people think it does.

On the one hand avoiding microplastics is a must, as is throwing trash out your window and not in a dump to be processed. But recyling, I cant see how recycling plastic has any positive impact.

In fact since recylcing probably consumes more energy than working with fresh new plastic I wouldnt be surprised if the numbers worked out to suggest that recycling causes **more** harm in the case of plastics. Just speculation, but either way I cant see how recycling of plastics is improving the situation (unlike the other suggests)

@yarmo

@Zest

True, it means you dont need to focus too much on plastic or your consumption of it at all. Just ride bikes everywhere and your solving the problem (as best you can as an individual).

@yarmo

@danny

Because recycling doesn't effect the amount of new plastic produced, so what is it fixing. If the amount of plastic produced is the same no matter if you buy plastic or recycle it, then the total amount of plastic int he world increases at the same rate regardless.

So that being true when you recycle, what problem is it fixing? If I recycle it or bury it in the ground both of them ensure that plastic never makes into the wild, and neither option effects whether or not other plastics become discarded to the wild.

The point of recycling is to conserver limited resources. That doesnt fit the description of plastic. It makes sense to recycle metal however because when you do it means we will mine and manufacture that much less new metal.

@yarmo