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[–] abfarid@startrek.website 67 points 1 month ago (5 children)

Their hat/house is literally trash though.

[–] Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 44 points 1 month ago (3 children)

It is now! It was reuse, one of the best Rs in reduce, Reuse, Recycle!

[–] thedirtyknapkin@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

damn... does this count? like generally we want to avoid plastic cups in the ocean, but would it be bad to take something like this from say, a hermit crab? if we take the cup where will it go? chances are it will just end up somewhere else it shouldn't, but this time without being made use of by crabs. my knee jerk reaction was to say animals using plastics don't count, but that's clearly not true when we reuse garbage intentionally to create animal habitat like artificial reefs. can we really say that only humans have the capacity to reuse their own garbage effectively?

[–] DrDominate@lemmy.world 20 points 1 month ago

Plastic cups are not good protection for animals that use shells. These divers dont forcefully take the cup shell either. They'll happily give up their plastic cups for the new shells being offered as long as they like it. Then the plastic cup is thrown away.

There's a difference from scientists trying to make artificial reefs (which even then like the tire reef fiasco turned out to be a terrible idea) and random trash being picked up and used by the local wildlife.

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