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Making fenceposts out of a mystery plastic sludge isn’t recycling, it’s downcycling
by garbagewoman 1y ago
Making 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?