• Cryophilia@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    I hate that they added more shit. “Reduce, reuse, recycle” was perfect.

    “refuse” is literally the same thing as “reduce”

    “repurpose” is a subset of “recycle”

    What the fuck is it nowadays with wanting to tack on more useless shit to perfect mnemonics? Especially for a mnemonic whose entire point is to prevent wastefulness.

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      8 months ago

      “repurpose” is a subset of “recycle”

      Repurpose is reuse, just for a different use than originally intended.

      Your point about reduce, reuse, recycle being enough is absolutely correct and all I ever hear about is the recycle part which is counterproductive when it is used to justify mass consumption and disposable products.