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submitted 4 months ago by over_clox@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

I'll start.. toilet paper, tampons, and QTips...

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[-] MushuChupacabra@lemmy.world 79 points 4 months ago
[-] Kbobabob@lemmy.world 5 points 4 months ago

Didn't you usually have to grind the source material into dust completely destroying it to remake it into something better?

[-] pingveno@lemmy.ml 2 points 4 months ago

Even then it's a little dicey.

[-] besbin@lemmy.ml 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

That's only half the story they told you. After you dice, grind and melt the original material. You have to use some virgin materials as binder to get all that stuff together. The amount of virgin materials can sometimes surpass even the amount of old stuff and render the whole recycling process moot for those nasty material. That's why you should have better just burn them all in a furnace or just bury them back in the ground where they belong.

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