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My wording was poor - I meant to write "most soft plastics that were recycled, were recycled into fence posts". Not that most soft plastic was recycled. I'm no
by PlunderBunny 1y ago
My wording was poor - I meant to write "most soft plastics that were recycled, were recycled into fence posts". Not that most soft plastic was recycled.
I'm not disagreeing with any of what you have posted.
For reference, the 52 posts that I have on my property are constructed from more milk bottles and soft plastic than I will ever consume in my lifetime. It's a drop in the bucket, but it's significant to me.
- garbagewoman 1y agoMaking fenceposts out of a mystery plastic sludge isn’t recycling, it’s downcycling
- PlunderBunny 1y agoThe plastics used aren't a mystery - the outer parts of the posts (the bit that's exposed) are made from milk bottles. The resulting product is something that is useful to me and to the other people that buy it. Without it, I'd buy a treated timber post, which also has an environmental cost (different trade-offs). Is it down-cycling when the resulting product is more useful that the products it was composed of?