The biography of a British recycling bag
Do you really have to wash yogurt pots before throwing them away?
Modern life offers many troubling questions. Is AI conscious? How do you stimulate economic growth? And do you really have to take that funny bit of paper at the bottom of the salmon packet out when you put it in the recycling? Also: do you have to wash your yogurt pots before recycling them? And is any of this stuff actually reused anyway? AI and growth are rather tricky. But the answers to the micro-worries are: no, no and yes, definitely.
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This article appeared in the Britain section of the print edition under the headline “Modern life is rubbish”
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