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Own your own fucking responsibility (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
submitted 7 months ago by to c/whitepeopletwitter@sh.itjust.works
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[–] 36 points 7 months ago (1 child)

Not to say that netfix isn't horrible, but how much did Netflix save in CO2 buy gutting the movie theater and video rental industry? Surely it's better to stream than it is to drive to a physical location, pick up a crystalized block of oil, drive it home and shove it into our VCR.

Hell, when they were doing disc delivery, it was coming through the mail who was already driving through the hood in most places.

Hell, I wonder how much co2 it cost to make the DVD/VHS tapes in the first place.

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  • [–] 33 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    Yeah this smacks of "but wind turbine blades aren't recyclable"! So? It's still better than what we were doing before.

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  • [–] 8 points 7 months ago (3 children)

    wind turbine blades aren’t recyclable

    I didn't even know about that.

    Wonder if they could crush them up and use them as concrete aggregate.

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  • [–] 13 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    "made mainly of carbon fiber, fiberglass, and balsa wood" from some random source. Doesn't sound like anything particularly toxic or difficult to source. I can't imagine putting them in landfill is a serious problem. So my response is "so what".

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  • [–] 7 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    Why not?

    Carbon fiber and fiberglass in concrete foundations would limit microplastics and add strength to the product. Throwing a never-decomposing product into a landfill is just taking up space for something that can decompose over a couple of hundred years. Reuse it at least once it there's a viable solution.

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  • [–] 7 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    Sure. I mean, you could. Probably there are better sources, like construction waste, that you'd want to exhaust first, but I obviously haven't done a serious cost-benefit analysis, nor am I really qualified. My intuition is that you could do it but there are better uses of the time and money.

    Relatively inert stuff in a landfill doesn't seem like the highest-priority use of the time and money. The resources used to scrap and recycle a wind turbine blade could probably be much better used for more consequential purposes.

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  • [–] 3 points 7 months ago

    I don't like the idea of crushed fiberglass in landfills, but it's far down the list of awful things we do to the planet. I think you're correct in assuming the effort is better spent elsewhere.

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago (1 child)

    Nope, they put them in big graveyards

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  • [–] 3 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    Need to figure out a reclamation process, but nobody's trying just yet.

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago (1 child)

    They're genuinely just not that recyclable. And that's fine, they're still really helpful

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