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As a starting point, the burning of fossil fuels, and to a lesser extent deforestation and release of methane are responsible for the warming in recent decades: Graph of temperature as observed with significant warming, and simulated without added greenhouse gases and other anthropogentic changes, which shows no significant warming

How much each change to the atmosphere has warmed the world: IPCC AR6 Figure 2 - Thee bar charts: first chart: how much each gas has warmed the world. About 1C of total warming. Second chart: about 1.5C of total warming from well-mixed greenhouse gases, offset by 0.4C of cooling from aerosols and negligible influence from changes to solar output, volcanoes, and internal variability. Third chart: about 1.25C of warming from CO2, 0.5C from methane, and a bunch more in small quantities from other gases. About 0.5C of cooling with large error bars from SO2.

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When Is “Recyclable” Not Really Recyclable? When the Plastics Industry Gets to Define What the Word Means. (www.propublica.org)
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I switched to reusable shopping bags along with the rest of Colorado when they enacted a ban this year and honestly prefer them now. Once you get in the habit of bringing them to stores it’s easy.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

More than 9/10 times, it's not recyclable.

Literally less than 10% all of the plastic in the history of plastic has been recycled.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

And the 10% that is, probably shouldn't be. The recycling process releases massive quantities of micro-plastics into our waterways, and from there into our soil, and so into our food.