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I may be missing it, but this article mainly talks about the issues of pyrolysis and advanced plastics recycling. But it provides data supporting traditional re
by amusingimpala75 2y ago
I may be missing it, but this article mainly talks about the issues of pyrolysis and advanced plastics recycling. But it provides data supporting traditional recycling, citing a 55-85% success rate. Are there any other issues with traditional recycling, or do we just need to make sure that the plastic being recycled is using the better/older method?
- kragen 2y agopyrolysis makes yogurt tubs from yogurt tubs. traditional 'mechanical' recycling makes park benches from yogurt tubs and throws up its hands at the park benches
- ZeroGravitas 2y agoThey're kind of complementary. The expanded version of Reduce, Reuse, Recycle has Waste-to-energy and landfill as next steps. Chemical recycling could fit in between mechanical recycling and Waste-to-energy. Though if you just let corporations lie about stuff then it's hard for any kind of logical actions to be taken. Personally I don't mind the mass balance stuff they mention as long as there is a mandated minimum. Similar to 'green electricity' that all come through the same wires as the coal generation it's fine if consumer brands want to pay a little extra to market themselves as 100% green energy but if you spread any extra cost across every faceless user by forcing them to buy a minimum 1% green energy and ramp it up over a few years then that's a good way to fund the initial rollout of new cleaner options.
- yarekt 2y agoAs I understand it, plastics that come “post consumer” are too polluted to be used for anything but lowest grade of products: tyres, though probably not even that as people want “performance” from their tyres. Where I live (UK) most plastic waste can’t be recycled yet, and they took our bins when I accidentally (optimistically) tried :(