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soperj on Jan 19, 2023 | parent | context | favorite | on: Plastic to Oil – Produces 80% Oil

They end up in the environment regardless. Where do you put your lint trap material? where does the dryer vent to?

Retric on Jan 19, 2023 [–]

If you want to be that pedantic the clothes you’re using right now are already part of the environment as are clothes sitting in stores etc.

However, using the common terminology a sealed garbage dump isn’t part of the environment in question because sea life isn’t coming into contact with it.

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