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[–] [email protected] -2 points 3 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I want to hate your comment so much but reality is reality.

Plastics just don't really get recycled. Despite the efforts made (the company I work for included), recycling is such a joke because it's hard to even FIND sources that WILL recycle certain things because at the end of the day it likely doesn't exist because it's more expensive and sometimes has an even greater impact on the environment to recycle than to just keep buggering on.

That said, I don't like you burning plastics. I grew up burning paper trash in barrels but we were still mindful of not releasing toxic fumes into the local environment. So, fuck you for that one.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I make sure the chimney takes it out of the environment.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I wonder if it's anything like this lighthouse I'm showing your mum right now?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

My mother just passed away last week and I’m still pretty sore about it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

You miss out on a last chance or something?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I missed out on a last chance to say good bye, because I was too busy burning my plastic.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Bruh, she told me to tell you she always wanted to love you.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

This thread is brutal lmao

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Oh, I'm sorry. Well, I could put the trash into a landfill where it's going to stay for millions of years, or I could burn it up and get a nice smoky smell in here and let that smoke go into the sky where it turns into stars.