USA only recycles 5% plastic, less than half of that is done here, the rest is shipped overseas. It's just not worth it anymore and people actually think if EV's become mainstem all this BS we will be and can recycle EV batteries: they are building plants and we already do.. Ha ha ha .
The furure will be a wasteland of Single use cars being scrapped and piles of waste that's not worth the effort (plastic is easy to recycle).
Why will The cars be "ultimately" be single use? Factory batteries will be too expensive and the aftermarket ones will be of dubious quality and inferior (like lots of auto parts nowadays) which will make replacement ultimately not worth it.
I wish people would pay attention, the future is easy to see we do the same things over and over and always make more problems than we solve because the masses always listen to the "experts".
I do not enjoy all this happening but I do enjoy always telling people down the road I told you so.
We make more crap than ever, buy more crap than ever, stopped trying to reduce waste that was such an important thing to do 30 years ago. We do stupid crap like ethanol that takes about a gallon of fossil fuel to make a gallon of it.
So we create more emissions than ever by making globs of useless toys and gadgets like a camera to make sure your package doesn't get stolen off you porch that you are to lazy to get while uptown. (wasted manufacturing of the gadget and associated packaging to deliver it to you)
A zillion things we do that have increased emissions and use of fossil fuels that we were supposed to stop doing as much of, but didn't and wont.
All the crap we do that we shouldn't, and people actually believe the strives we have made with cars in efficiency doesn't mean anything. We worked hard to make them very good. Every second of running is monitored and optimized
Why are people not bitching about making less plastic and recycling all of it to reduce raw materials (getting them is emissions) and manufacturing (Again emissions)
So lets build a new industry of emissions that will never offset the hard work we have already done last 30 years on vehicles.
If you havent learned this by now you should be reborn and start life over again as everything is money.
lots of money to be made by your guilt while you continue to fill your life with garbage and producing more waste, materials and CO than ever.
Yet an EV will save us.
People applaud Auto manufactures for going EV, ah it will be cheaper for them (or they wouldn't do it) now that cars and controls are all computer integrated its doable now, just need add another module to the other 15 your car has.
So man will continue to do all the things we shouldn't be like consuming more than ever (which we were supposed to stop doing 30 years ago, and think a car will save the planet.
I get the feel-good of it but it won't do anything and just make a pie of waste down the road to deal with unless everything else decreases that we do but won't.
The funny thing is a good volcanic eruption or two, has more impact on global climate than we do and can last years..
So, I am the only human being enjoying God’s natural beauty first thing in the morning.
