throwmtlsPhD

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   by throwmtlsPhD 6y ago

   Can I suggest an alternative? The pieces of the NYT that you think are “some of the best journalistic context out there” might be in area that you are less well read than you believe yourself to be. I know this has been true for me many tim
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   by throwmtlsPhD 6y ago

   It can be transparent in the visible spectrum. But ya, the UV dyes are probably not very stable
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   by throwmtlsPhD 6y ago

   Excellent point about the multiple components in products. Ppl don’t realize that there’s a plastic liner on their can of Coke (of course, that just gets burned off when the Al gets recycled) About Germany’s “recycling” I despise it when “e
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   by throwmtlsPhD 6y ago

   Typo, car. And for some reason I can’t push edits on my comments
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   by throwmtlsPhD 6y ago

   I like your comment and the honest answer is I don’t know, but I see no problems with dumping plastic on the ground, vs in the ocean. But some observations on your comment. Is plastic, that was never in the atmosphere (for millions of year
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   by throwmtlsPhD 6y ago

   Disclaimer: So I have a PhD in mtls science, and I studied a bit of plastics thermo. However I never worked on the recycling problem. Plastics, or polymers that aren’t cross linked, are in a sense easy to recycle - Just melt them and recast