Plastic Recycling
Plastic Recycling
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stupid question, should I then not be recycling plastics?
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If you ask my chemistry professor, there is only one category of truly recyclable plastic: thermoplastic. Within that category I think he specifically mentioned polypropylene, because it doesn't require the addition of new plastic to be stable after reforming into a new plastic product. Unfortunately that one rarely gets recycled because it's used for milk jugs and such, and food contamination is too big a hassle for people to deal with when there's all this shiny new plastic waiting to be used
I'm a little bit drunk right now so my memory is probably not the best, you should definitely not take what I said as perfect fact xD
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New recycling techniques are being developed, even if we landfilled our trash separately it would help future efforts to clean it all up.
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It's gonna depend on where you are, ultimately. Here it all ends up in a dump anyway.
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Not buy and if you already did re-use it.
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I mean I do as much as I can but there are unavoidable products now with plastic as their packaging.
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That has to be outlawed.
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While I understand the sentiment I'm not sure how that'll work for products like sanitizer wipes or shampoo without making them out of something like tin/aluminum. The wetness of the product would soak right through paper/cardboard. You could make use of tin/aluminum for those products but I dont see it being very cost effective, especially since most Americans dont recycle as it is.
If there is a plastic-like substitute for situations like this I'd be happy to know about it though. Maybe theres some sort of eco-friendly alternative product out there I didnt know about before :)
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We will not get to 0 % plastic products or packaging. That shouldn‘t stop us from reducing it significantly, even if we have to look back to the mid 20th century to see how that works.
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I feel like it does good, but then Penn & Teller day otherwise.
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