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How much each change to the atmosphere has warmed the world: IPCC AR6 Figure 2 - Thee bar charts: first chart: how much each gas has warmed the world. About 1C of total warming. Second chart: about 1.5C of total warming from well-mixed greenhouse gases, offset by 0.4C of cooling from aerosols and negligible influence from changes to solar output, volcanoes, and internal variability. Third chart: about 1.25C of warming from CO2, 0.5C from methane, and a bunch more in small quantities from other gases. About 0.5C of cooling with large error bars from SO2.

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How Italy got its citizens — and me — to adopt a rigorous recycling scheme | Grist (grist.org)
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[–] federalreverse@feddit.org 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

A bit idealized in part. Germany has a similar system, and there are just a lot of people who ignore or misunderstand the rules, and a lot of packaging uses deceptive designs, e.g. plastics looking like paper. Facilities sometimes burn because some people discard vapes among their regular trash. And finally, most of the content of the yellow recycling bags is still burned anyhow because nobody can commercially recycle chips bag or tetrapaks. (Paper, glass, and organics recycling usually works pretty well though.)

I imagine Italy is maybe better in some areas but overall not too different.

The one thing that really works in Germany though is the bottle deposit system.