Does recycling your plastic actually work? - Shannon Odell
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Date: 2023-10-17
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Jean-Pierre
We could reduce the number of plastics and then give each remaining type its own color shade or even colored label. But that won't happen because of freedom.
There is however also the solution of pyrolysis.
I think that this well known procedure has yet never been optimized since fuel was till now so cheap. The reactor is kept on very high temperature, free of oxygen, and an ideal pressure until something like crude oil can be formed, as basis for new plastics or as synthetic fuel. Has anyone worked on insulating that reactor so once on temperature, the energy input is now much lower? Could lasers or microwaves help to lower energy requirements? It is well known how to do this but fossil oil is still cheaper and so nobody bothers. However, with that war, I don't know if today, the price would not be comparable.
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We could reduce the number of plastics and then give each remaining type its own color shade or even colored label. But that won't happen because of freedom.
There is however also the solution of pyrolysis.
I think that this well known procedure has yet never been optimized since fuel was till now so cheap. The reactor is kept on very high temperature, free of oxygen, and an ideal pressure until something like crude oil can be formed, as basis for new plastics or as synthetic fuel. Has anyone worked on insulating that reactor so once on temperature, the energy input is now much lower? Could lasers or microwaves help to lower energy requirements? It is well known how to do this but fossil oil is still cheaper and so nobody bothers. However, with that war, I don't know if today, the price would not be comparable.
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Charlotte
We could reduce the number of plastics and then give each remaining type its own color shade or even colored label. But that won't happen because of freedom.
There is however also the solution of pyrolysis.
I think that this well known procedure has yet never been optimized since fuel was till now so cheap. The reactor is kept on very high temperature, free of oxygen, and an ideal pressure until something like crude oil can be formed, as basis for new plastics or as synthetic fuel. Has anyone worked on insulating that reactor so once on temperature, the energy input is now much lower? Could lasers or microwaves help to lower energy requirements? It is well known how to do this but fossil oil is still cheaper and so nobody bothers. However, with that war, I don't know if today, the price would not be comparable.
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We could reduce the number of plastics and then give each remaining type its own color shade or even colored label. But that won't happen because of freedom.
There is however also the solution of pyrolysis.
I think that this well known procedure has yet never been optimized since fuel was till now so cheap. The reactor is kept on very high temperature, free of oxygen, and an ideal pressure until something like crude oil can be formed, as basis for new plastics or as synthetic fuel. Has anyone worked on insulating that reactor so once on temperature, the energy input is now much lower? Could lasers or microwaves help to lower energy requirements? It is well known how to do this but fossil oil is still cheaper and so nobody bothers. However, with that war, I don't know if today, the price would not be comparable.
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CHERIE
It's always fun to get a paper straw with a plastic cup, cuz people are smart. I worked as a temp in a factory that produced plastic recycled for the Auto industry and it was fun breathing in the plastic particulate dust in the air when it was cut into pellets from long ropes. Recycling is a good thing, but somehow it's always the poorest people doing the bulk of the work. Just ask the people in India and other places who take old computers and melt out the precious metals to make a living.
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It's always fun to get a paper straw with a plastic cup, cuz people are smart. I worked as a temp in a factory that produced plastic recycled for the Auto industry and it was fun breathing in the plastic particulate dust in the air when it was cut into pellets from long ropes. Recycling is a good thing, but somehow it's always the poorest people doing the bulk of the work. Just ask the people in India and other places who take old computers and melt out the precious metals to make a living.
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Mark
It's always fun to get a paper straw with a plastic cup, cuz people are smart. I worked as a temp in a factory that produced plastic recycled for the Auto industry and it was fun breathing in the plastic particulate dust in the air when it was cut into pellets from long ropes. Recycling is a good thing, but somehow it's always the poorest people doing the bulk of the work. Just ask the people in India and other places who take old computers and melt out the precious metals to make a living.
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It's always fun to get a paper straw with a plastic cup, cuz people are smart. I worked as a temp in a factory that produced plastic recycled for the Auto industry and it was fun breathing in the plastic particulate dust in the air when it was cut into pellets from long ropes. Recycling is a good thing, but somehow it's always the poorest people doing the bulk of the work. Just ask the people in India and other places who take old computers and melt out the precious metals to make a living.
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Евгений
It's the same with ecological electric cars. You can't really recycle batteries leftover after it's degraded. Not speaking of the fact that to charge your green car of the future you still need to burn fossil fuels, yet it works because u can't see a smoking pipe in the back of your progressive vehicle. It's just marketing. Businessmen knowing that everyone is hyped about ecology use it for their advantage selling you the idea that you are saving the world.
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It's the same with ecological electric cars. You can't really recycle batteries leftover after it's degraded. Not speaking of the fact that to charge your green car of the future you still need to burn fossil fuels, yet it works because u can't see a smoking pipe in the back of your progressive vehicle. It's just marketing. Businessmen knowing that everyone is hyped about ecology use it for their advantage selling you the idea that you are saving the world.
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KARYTTAH
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-> But Don't Pay Much Attention To Our Neanderthal English, Ha Ha Ha
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---> Maybe We're The #1 #Spiritist #PopMetal #Rock #Band In This World
-> But Don't Pay Much Attention To Our Neanderthal English, Ha Ha Ha
NOTE:
-> Spiritist is who professes #Spiritism, the #Gospel continuation.
It has began with the books by #AllanKardec and continued in the books by Francisco C. Xavier #ChicoXavier, the greatest and more important #medium/#prophet of #spirits of the last centuries.
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Jonathan
Honestly, I feel like the single most absurd thing in our modern world is the concept of single use. Such complex feats of design and engineering, produced through incredible meticulous processes, build from ressources collected from all around the globe.
All to be thrown out after a single use. And replaced by another exact copy for the next single use.
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Honestly, I feel like the single most absurd thing in our modern world is the concept of single use. Such complex feats of design and engineering, produced through incredible meticulous processes, build from ressources collected from all around the globe.
All to be thrown out after a single use. And replaced by another exact copy for the next single use.
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Archangel
Remember when the TV brainwashed you back in the 80's about this stuff? Glass and steel were the bad guys? BIG CORP mentally ill capitalist consumer filth like (You) were the problem. You deserve to be lined up against the wall for the climate change that you've doomed our Earth with. There's a giant island of plastic floating in the Pacific, thanks to you.
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Remember when the TV brainwashed you back in the 80's about this stuff? Glass and steel were the bad guys? BIG CORP mentally ill capitalist consumer filth like (You) were the problem. You deserve to be lined up against the wall for the climate change that you've doomed our Earth with. There's a giant island of plastic floating in the Pacific, thanks to you.
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Ricardo
Imagine thinking that the reason why plastic isn't recycled is because of confusing labels and not that third-world countries don't care and toss their plastic waste onto roads and rivers.
China, India, the Philippines, and Malaysia alone are responsible for nearly half a million tons of plastic waste!
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Imagine thinking that the reason why plastic isn't recycled is because of confusing labels and not that third-world countries don't care and toss their plastic waste onto roads and rivers.
China, India, the Philippines, and Malaysia alone are responsible for nearly half a million tons of plastic waste!
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Jonathan
It's important to point out that we in the western hemisphere consume the most plastic per capita, and that a lot of industries in the developing world, such as cloths and electronics are made too fuel our needs and consumptions. And then we leave them to deal with the rest.
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It's important to point out that we in the western hemisphere consume the most plastic per capita, and that a lot of industries in the developing world, such as cloths and electronics are made too fuel our needs and consumptions. And then we leave them to deal with the rest.
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Groovebot
My only concern with a binary recycling code on plastics is that some consumers have actually learned the system and are using it for DIY products for reuse. lots of people forget that reusing was supposed to be one of the pillars as well, after all.
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My only concern with a binary recycling code on plastics is that some consumers have actually learned the system and are using it for DIY products for reuse. lots of people forget that reusing was supposed to be one of the pillars as well, after all.
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TheYummyKenshin
The whole resin code thing is pretty messed up. The symbol they use is only designed to look like the recycling symbol but isn't actually the recyclable symbol itself. It was just an effort to make consumers feel better about buying plastics.
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The whole resin code thing is pretty messed up. The symbol they use is only designed to look like the recycling symbol but isn't actually the recyclable symbol itself. It was just an effort to make consumers feel better about buying plastics.
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Poofie Baku
The whole resin code thing is pretty messed up. The symbol they use is only designed to look like the recycling symbol but isn't actually the recyclable symbol itself. It was just an effort to make consumers feel better about buying plastics.
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The whole resin code thing is pretty messed up. The symbol they use is only designed to look like the recycling symbol but isn't actually the recyclable symbol itself. It was just an effort to make consumers feel better about buying plastics.
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Yvonne
Our local recycling center sucks. No plastic bags. No plastic bottles. No colored plastic. No glass bottles. Only aluminium cans and cardboard. What's the point of having a recycling system if 98% of the items are thrown away?
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Our local recycling center sucks. No plastic bags. No plastic bottles. No colored plastic. No glass bottles. Only aluminium cans and cardboard. What's the point of having a recycling system if 98% of the items are thrown away?
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cherry
Its impossible to escape from plastic. But as long as we can come up with solutions to deal with this problem there's hope. And I agree with the idea of simplifying whether something can be recycled or not on products.
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Its impossible to escape from plastic. But as long as we can come up with solutions to deal with this problem there's hope. And I agree with the idea of simplifying whether something can be recycled or not on products.
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Serw
Its impossible to escape from plastic. But as long as we can come up with solutions to deal with this problem there's hope. And I agree with the idea of simplifying whether something can be recycled or not on products.
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Its impossible to escape from plastic. But as long as we can come up with solutions to deal with this problem there's hope. And I agree with the idea of simplifying whether something can be recycled or not on products.
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Lana
Its impossible to escape from plastic. But as long as we can come up with solutions to deal with this problem there's hope. And I agree with the idea of simplifying whether something can be recycled or not on products.
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Its impossible to escape from plastic. But as long as we can come up with solutions to deal with this problem there's hope. And I agree with the idea of simplifying whether something can be recycled or not on products.
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mondodimotori
My former rommate is a Environmental Engineer. When this plastic conspiracy turned up for the first time in my feed I asked him, holding a plastic bottle, can this thing be recicled?
He said yes.
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My former rommate is a Environmental Engineer. When this plastic conspiracy turned up for the first time in my feed I asked him, holding a plastic bottle, can this thing be recicled?
He said yes.
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FriendofWigner
One of the principle assumptions of capitalism is that the consumer makes informed choices. I find it endlessly fascinating that the kings of capitalism so often want to deny us that information.
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One of the principle assumptions of capitalism is that the consumer makes informed choices. I find it endlessly fascinating that the kings of capitalism so often want to deny us that information.
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epoliv
The idea of recycling plastic is mostly a scam to make consumers feel less bad about buying disposable plastic products. 91% of plastics cannot be recycled! That's basically as if none are recycled.
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The idea of recycling plastic is mostly a scam to make consumers feel less bad about buying disposable plastic products. 91% of plastics cannot be recycled! That's basically as if none are recycled.
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