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FalloutShelter

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1. After all the years of washing our garbage

Reply to erronis (Original post)

Wed Dec 10, 2025, 09:53 PM

Wednesday

In assurance that it will be recycled… only to find out that perhaps 5% of our plastic is actually recycled, is yet another betrayal of public trust.

With groundwater failing here and abroad. Fresh water shortages predicted to increase… and we are dutifully washing our plastic garbage.

We need change and we need it now.

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