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Plastic is recyclable though. 3D printing guys do it all the time when they spin their own fiber out of left over junk. And “made out of recyclable plastic” is
by eyivghh 5y ago
Plastic is recyclable though. 3D printing guys do it all the time when they spin their own fiber out of left over junk.
And “made out of recyclable plastic” is a thing, and it works.
What isnt recyclable are mixed plastics, ie consumer plastic. But industrial users (ie folks who have large quantities of the same thing so sorting is cheap) can and do recycle plastic.
- jandrese 5y agoMost plastic can be recycled, but it costs more to do so and you get a worse end product than virgin plastic so it is generally not done. This is why many municipalities maintain their recycling program despite the fact that most of the material ends up in the landfill. The hope is that in the future either virgin plastic will become so expensive that recycling makes sense, or someone will figure out a better way to recycle plastic and make it economically viable. They want to keep people in the habit of recycling.