I’ve randomly heard various iterations of the claim recycling is a scam but never received a fleshed-out explanation or anything

  • Dasus@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    Proper recycling isn’t a scam but corporations polluting a billion times more than citizens is why it’s sort of a scam to insinuate that personal recycling could make a difference with such massive levels of corporate pollution.

    If we switched it around, people didn’t recycle but corporations did, we’d be 10000x better off.

    But optimally everything should be recycle ofc. But that’s an ideal situation and the real world doesn’t usually support those.

      • Dasus@lemmy.world
        2·
        2 days ago

        Some children’s show I guess. Lemme check.

        https://en.meming.world/wiki/Well_Yes,_But_Actually_No#Origin

        A claymation, stop-motion picture titled The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists!, also known as The Pirates! Band of Misfits in the United States, was released in August 2012.

        One of the movie’s characters, Pirate Captain, responds to a question posed by another character with “Good guess, but actually no.” The line is frequently misheard as “Well yes, but actually no,” giving the image macro its trademark line.