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> Recycling mentioned on Hacker News always depresses me. Same here. Especially as someone from central europe where most recycling just works and noone even t
by awiesenhofer 6y ago
> Recycling mentioned on Hacker News always depresses me.
Same here. Especially as someone from central europe where most recycling just works and noone even thinks twice about it. Heck, a lot of landfill dumping is even banned here already and anything dumped must be thermally threated first anyway.
- kachnuv_ocasek 6y agoActually, I'm not sure how well recycling works in "Central Europe". In Czechia, at least, although waste sorting seems to work fairly well, as far as I'm aware, the share of plastic waste that gets recycled is negligible. Most of it gets burnt or pyrolysed for heating and electricity.
- Shacklz 6y ago> Most of it gets burnt or pyrolysed for heating and electricity. Well, at least it doesn't get shipped around the world to then be dumped into the ocean...
- tutanchamun 6y agoYes, 1 or 2 years ago I saw a short piece about recycling plastics and what really is getting recycled in the end. Many products which would be easy to recycle didn't get recycled because they had fancy labels on them which made it hard or impossible for the machines which resulted in the plastics getting burned instead.