Re:Recycling Rethink: What to Do with Trash Now China Won’t ...
by mrfusion on Saturday December 21, 2019 @09:08PM
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Remember all that same stuff was taken out of the earth at one point.
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Re:Recycling Rethink: What to Do with Trash Now China Won’t ...
by barunio on Saturday December 21, 2019 @11:46PM
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Actually, no. You might say this about metals, for example, but nature does not produce the sort of high-energy low-information hydrocarbon chains that comprise nearly all plastics. Inserting massive quantities of manmade endocrine disruptors into the earth is massively disruptive.