Re:Just 10% of U.S. plastic gets recycled. A new kind of pla...
by galangalalgol on Tuesday April 23, 2019 @11:14AM
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Interesting! Also I have always wondered why we don't recycle styrofoam. You can dissolve it in all sorts of solvents, filter it and then evaporate and reclaim the solvent.
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Re:Just 10% of U.S. plastic gets recycled. A new kind of pla...
by bunderbunder on Tuesday April 23, 2019 @11:36AM
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Expanded polystyrene is, by design, a very lightweight and flimsy material. And the very fact that it's so flimsy, and also typically used in food containers, is why nobody wants to use it: it tends to be horribly contaminated with foreign material, and is difficult to effectively clean. I'm not sure there's much of a market for a post-consumer material that consists of a mix of polystyrene and uneaten cheese.
Re:Just 10% of U.S. plastic gets recycled. A new kind of pla...
by Nasrudith on Tuesday April 23, 2019 @11:22AM
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Well for one styrofoam is neither dense nor valueable so even if said solvent stew approach could work without cleaning and filtering economically (not a given) hauling a bunch of styrofoam wouldn't be all that efficient compared to even glass let alone aluminum.