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A comment on Plastics: What's Recyclable, What Becomes Trash and Why. Parent comment

Re:Plastics: What's Recyclable, What Becomes Trash and Why by TheSpiceIsLife on Wednesday August 21, 2019 @10:35PM (#20764122)
That’s not an entirely terrible idea.

Could all(?) packaging intended for recycling by made from aluminium?

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Re:Plastics: What's Recyclable, What Becomes Trash and Why by TaylorAlexander on Wednesday August 21, 2019 @10:55PM (#20764231)
Well aluminum does take a whole lot of energy to manufacture, so if it doesn’t all get recycled there would likely be a lot of waste there.
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Re:Plastics: What's Recyclable, What Becomes Trash and Why by TheSpiceIsLife on Thursday August 22, 2019 @12:03AM (#20764521)
Heaps of energy. Here in Tasmania the aluminium refinery consumes something like 56% of the states electricity.

This site https://www.aluminum.org/industries/production/recycling claims that 75% of all aluminium is recycled and that over 70% of all aluminium ever produced is still in use.

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