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The Delusion of Advanced Plastics Recycling
(www.propublica.org)
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this post was submitted on 20 Jun 2024
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I didn't read the article.
From a technical viewpoint, all types of plastics can be recycled; it just costs a lot of energy. So instead of supplying this energy through fossil fuels to re-cycle old plastics, they just used the fossil fuels directly to make new plastics.
In the future however, when there's abundant amounts of cheap solar energy, it will make sense to re-cycle plastics.