They are making plastic out of strange quarks!?
this post was submitted on 13 Mar 2025
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What a quarky process recycling is!
were 99% binding energy anyway
Deep down chemists know all chemistry is physics, and that fact makes their bones tremble.
And all physics is just statistics
And all statistics are damned lies.
The Universe has left the chat
plastic bottles are recyclable
Not really. Plastic gets damaged when heating it up to melting temps. You won't get a product that has the same properties, unlike with aluminium for instance. You can maybe get away with adding a small percentage of recycled pellets back in, but that's it.
Metals are also not 100% recyclable due to contamination. We just have plenty of use for low grade metal alloys.
Don't most of the contaminants come out as slag? (IDK I'm not an industrial furnace)
It depends on the contaminant. For example, if iron is polluted with carbon, carbon will dissolve and even react with iron to produce cementite. That's how iron becomes steel.
And slag itself results in a metal loss. You can't drain it off and not waste some of the material you're recovering.
Basically there's no such thing as 100% recovery of recycled material in an industrial setting. You can do it in the lab at astronomical costs, sure, but your local metalworks are not capable of that. But that doesn't mean we should stop recycling.
Which literally means "anything other than aerospace engineering". Aluminium and other metals are infinitely more recyclable than plastics, which as I've said before, degrade immediately to being barely usable.
fair enough
PET bottles yes, other plastic bottles not so much, or at least until someone figures out a way to turn plastic trash into a cheap alternative to petroleum.
They're not recyclable yet. In a few years when we have Mr. Fusions and replicators, things will be different.
Lol literally Recycling everything made of particles would be pretty sick
It’s true. Give me a hot and dense enough furnace and I’ll recycle everything into iron. EVERYTHING.
The factory must grow.
we already have one
Even denser and I'll make it neutronium.
... But not too dense or it becomes ???.
Hawking radiation.... eventually.
I'll have two ingots of that, please.
I'm fine with just a bite. I'll go fetch my habanero sauce.