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>There's no reason to expect it to be cheaper. Sure there is, the raw materials have to be mined and transported across the country and such, it's ridiculous t
by Suppafly 1y ago
>There's no reason to expect it to be cheaper.
Sure there is, the raw materials have to be mined and transported across the country and such, it's ridiculous that it's cheaper to do that than to shred existing material and melt it back down. Even if you're downcycling from something like soda bottles to something like fence posts or plastic bricks or whatever, it should definitely be cheaper to recycle.
- baggy_trough 1y agoThat depends on the properties of the material and how much it costs to mine and transport it. Plastic is lightweight and ludicrously cheap to produce (hence why there are so many cost effective uses for it). Just the fact that it is dyed different colors may present an insurmountable cost problem for recyclers.