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Good. The carbon footprint from recycling plastic is larger than that from just making new plastic. https://digitalcommons.bucknell.edu/fac_journ/774/ https://
by Causality1 7y ago
Good. The carbon footprint from recycling plastic is larger than that from just making new plastic.
https://digitalcommons.bucknell.edu/fac_journ/774/ https://digitalcommons.bucknell.edu/fac_journ/774/
A 35 square mile landfill could accommodate the total waste of the United States for the next thousand years.
https://books.google.com/books/about/U_S_Wastepaper_Recycling_Policies.html?id=m9YsAQAAMAAJ https://books.google.com/books/about/U_S_Wastepaper_Recyclin...
It would be great to develop technologies that would allow us to efficiently recycle plastic. We don't have them yet, and until we do, landfilling plastic is better for the environment and the climate than recycling it.