• Ranger
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    7 hours ago

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

    • Luccus@feddit.org
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      6 hours ago

      ☝️🤓 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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        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?