The Delusion of “Advanced” Plastic Recycling
The Delusion of “Advanced” Plastic Recycling
www.propublica.org The Delusion of “Advanced” Plastic Recycling
The plastics industry has heralded a type of chemical recycling it claims could replace new shopping bags and candy wrappers with old ones — but not much is being recycled at all, and this method won’t curb the crisis.
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If we’re not going to recycle it, we might as well burn it as fuel in a power plant. Anything is better than throwing it in a landfill or shipping it off to another country.
Idk is it really better to contribute more to air pollution and greenhouse gases or to put it underground?