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Meal tray probably is going to landfill. Otoh plastic water bottles may end up as "carpet, clothing, plastic packaging." https://www.livescience.com/how-much-
by smallerfish 5y ago
Meal tray probably is going to landfill.
Otoh plastic water bottles may end up as "carpet, clothing, plastic packaging."
https://www.livescience.com/how-much-plastic-recycling.html https://www.livescience.com/how-much-plastic-recycling.html
- globular-toast 5y agoYeah, which is not a cycle. It's a linear path with the landfill at the end. I doubt there's even many examples with more than two hops before the landfill. That's why I call it "reprocessing", not recycling. According to that article, only 8.4% of plastic can be reprocessed. So that's 91.4.% with one hop to the landfill, 8.4% with two hops. It's not recycling by any stretch but they've been allowed to hijack the word.