• Sanctus@lemmy.world
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    Infinite uses… Really just the whole thing. Plastics aren’t as recyclable as we were told.

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    I like the enthusiasm but plastics just aren’t infinitely recyclable. Always remember the three R’s are in order of importance. Reduce first, reuse second, and recycle only if the first two arent plausible.

    Metal is infinitely recyclable as is can be melted down any amount of times. Plastics either break down when heated or need to be mixed with fresh plastic to keep some semblance of the properties of the original product, and even then only so many times before they are just non viable as anything other than trash.

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    Plastic recycling creates lots of microplastics & most plastic isn’t even recyclable.

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      ☝️🤓 Just about all thermoplastics are recyclable.

      …they just aren’t being recycled, because it’s expensive, energy intensive and overall not a great solution to a problem that shouldn’t exist in the first place.

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        25 days ago

        Do you think the whole “not really recyclable” trope could actually be a campaign by big oil to resign people to the assertion that we just need to keep producing more new plastics?

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          certainly feels that way, here in sweden we haven’t been poisoned by this idea and thus simply went ahead and built a facility to handle recycling of most plastics, as is sensible.

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    The Giga Chad Never Using Plastic because recycled plastic can give off more micro particles and have hidden PFAS from random sources.

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      Yes we need a sequel with giga chad only using paper, aluminum and glass

      (Yes yes except for hospitals)

  • ecoenginefutures@slrpnk.netOP
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    26 days ago

    Btw, I’d appreciate if you shared it on reddit (I might create an account there sometime, more normies need to know about solarpunk/solutions)