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This article makes me feel like an old ranty man in the pub. We have glass jars with coffee in. Using a spoon was apparently too difficult for some people, so
by throwaway_2009 5y ago
This article makes me feel like an old ranty man in the pub.
We have glass jars with coffee in. Using a spoon was apparently too difficult for some people, so we created plastic mesh bags to put the coffee in.
For whatever reason, some of these people decided that putting plastic in the bin was some sort of insurmountable task and so threw it out of the window.
So we now need to remake these (utterly pointless) plastic bags into something else, so that they can be thrown out of the window or whatever.
It's all just utterly bizarre.
- beenBoutIT 5y agoMelt them down with solvents/heat and then cast them into something useful. Every home could have its own artisanal plastic forge. It could be the Great Leap Forward (Third Five Year Plan).
- dehrmann 5y agoYou're better off with at-home incinerators or depolymerizers. The volume, variety, and marketability of discarded home plastic make the economics recycling lousy, and the feedstock would be just as bad for making plastics at home. The other side is if you look at what's being made with 3D printers, it's still limited to novelties and prototypes.
- 878654Tom 5y agoOn the topic of 3D printers, 3D has a lot of industrial, repair/replacement, design and medical usage so I would not say it is limited to novelties and prototypes. Some chirugs will do a test run on a printed hearth before they do it on a patient (they actually scan how the hearth looks like in the patient and model after it), protheses are being printed to custom fit per patient,... Yes, home printers are still very into novelties and arts. But for custom parts 3D printing is very common. As soon as mass production starts then yes, other techniques are much faster.
- beenBoutIT 5y agoApparently PET's safe to burn and has the equivalent energy content of soft coal - Penn State's found a way to make a coal-substitute out of it. https://tpsalliance.org/pdf/conference/2010/5B-Garthe-PlastofuelAutomating--2010.pdf https://tpsalliance.org/pdf/conference/2010/5B-Garthe-Plasto...