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The Delusion of Advanced Plastics Recycling (www.propublica.org)

submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Turns out even the most "advanced" modes of plastics recycling are bullshit, just as 40+years of plastics recycling efforts before them.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

I didn't read the article.

From a technical viewpoint, all types of plastics can be recycled; it just costs a lot of energy. So instead of supplying this energy through fossil fuels to re-cycle old plastics, they just used the fossil fuels directly to make new plastics.

In the future however, when there's abundant amounts of cheap solar energy, it will make sense to re-cycle plastics.