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Re:Recycling Rethink: What to Do with Trash Now China Won’t ... by garmaine on Monday December 23, 2019 @03:58PM (#21867311)
That doesn’t make chemical sense. There is a huge energetic cost to smelting ore to remove the oxides, vs. landfill material that is exactly what you need but just needs to be sorted and cleaned.
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Re:Recycling Rethink: What to Do with Trash Now China Won’t ... by maxerickson on Monday December 23, 2019 @07:53PM (#21868965)
The concentrations of valuable materials in the landfill are minuscule. It doesn't make energy sense to sort it even though the fractions are relatively ready to use.
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