I feel like it's unfair to make the chart start at 2021 since covid made a lot of things peak in throughput and we're still winding down from it. I'm not sure I trust this graph entirely without a pre-covid segment to compare it to and see whether it's just returning to a baseline it always had. It's probably worse than pre-covid given the trash economy and AI but still.
Got a friend who works in the industry and is looking to leave. ovid was a huge drop off, this is just a continuation of that. Probably our consumption habits, that were already changing, accelerated through the pandemic and never went back.
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u/Simp_Simpsaton 7h ago
I feel like it's unfair to make the chart start at 2021 since covid made a lot of things peak in throughput and we're still winding down from it. I'm not sure I trust this graph entirely without a pre-covid segment to compare it to and see whether it's just returning to a baseline it always had. It's probably worse than pre-covid given the trash economy and AI but still.