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What's your take on the use of plastic pyrolysis as a means of handling plastic waste? I get the core of your message, I think. We should consider the inputs t
by FooHentai 9y ago
What's your take on the use of plastic pyrolysis as a means of handling plastic waste?
I get the core of your message, I think. We should consider the inputs to the processes and minimize those. Focus on the outputs (recycling) does not greatly improve the situation and in fact a fixation on it is counterproductive as it steals focus away from efforts to 'reduce' and 're-use', which are more beneficial in the long run.
I ask about pyrolysis because, although it still focuses on the third R, it does seem to offer a (potentially) clean means to return plastics to their original crude state. This offers some promise that the environmental impacts of waste plastics could be removed by reprocessing, rather than the current option of reprocessing into other plastic products.