• Luccus@feddit.org
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    18 hours ago

    ☝️🤓 Just about all thermoplastics are recyclable.

    …they just aren’t being recycled, because it’s expensive, energy intensive and overall not a great solution to a problem that shouldn’t exist in the first place.

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      15 hours ago

      Do you think the whole “not really recyclable” trope could actually be a campaign by big oil to resign people to the assertion that we just need to keep producing more new plastics?

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        certainly feels that way, here in sweden we haven’t been poisoned by this idea and thus simply went ahead and built a facility to handle recycling of most plastics, as is sensible.