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minus-squaregi1242@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·1 month agothere have been several articles exposing plastic recycling as green washing. unfortunately they never make it to mainstream media https://www.npr.org/2022/10/24/1131131088/recycling-plastic-is-practically-impossible-and-the-problem-is-getting-worse i saw a chart somewhere showing less than 1% of plastic in use today is recycled but I can’t find it now
minus-squareJames R Kirk@startrek.websitelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·1 month agoSad that NPR is not considered “mainstream” these days. Maybe Joe Rogan will post something to Facebook about it?
minus-squarejagged_circle@feddit.nllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·edit-21 month agoNPR is definitely mainstream I think the word you’re looking for is “corporate” or “for-profit”. Thats what they’re not.
minus-squareJames R Kirk@startrek.websitelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·1 month agofwiw I agree, but it doesn’t appear to be considered mainstream by the guy I was replying to.
minus-squaregi1242@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·1 month agoha. i was wrong. NPR has 44 million weekly listeners. that probably qualifies as mainstream media. I thought npr had 10 times fewer listeners than that. (fyi NPR is the only radioi listen to) https://blog.marketenginuity.com/by-the-numbers-who-is-actually-listening-to-public-radio
minus-squareJames R Kirk@startrek.websitelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 month ago I thought npr had 10 times fewer listeners If you want to be depressed, Joe Rogan has 10 times that for single episodes.
there have been several articles exposing plastic recycling as green washing. unfortunately they never make it to mainstream media
https://www.npr.org/2022/10/24/1131131088/recycling-plastic-is-practically-impossible-and-the-problem-is-getting-worse
i saw a chart somewhere showing less than 1% of plastic in use today is recycled but I can’t find it now
Sad that NPR is not considered “mainstream” these days. Maybe Joe Rogan will post something to Facebook about it?
NPR is definitely mainstream
I think the word you’re looking for is “corporate” or “for-profit”. Thats what they’re not.
fwiw I agree, but it doesn’t appear to be considered mainstream by the guy I was replying to.
ha. i was wrong. NPR has 44 million weekly listeners. that probably qualifies as mainstream media.
I thought npr had 10 times fewer listeners than that. (fyi NPR is the only radioi listen to)
https://blog.marketenginuity.com/by-the-numbers-who-is-actually-listening-to-public-radio
If you want to be depressed, Joe Rogan has 10 times that for single episodes.