Re:Pringles tube tries to wake from 'recycling nightmare'
by kachnuv_ocasek on Friday September 11, 2020 @07:34AM
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Actually, I'm not sure how well recycling works in "Central Europe". In Czechia, at least, although waste sorting seems to work fairly well, as far as I'm aware, the share of plastic waste that gets recycled is negligible. Most of it gets burnt or pyrolysed for heating and electricity.
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Re:Pringles tube tries to wake from 'recycling nightmare'
by Shacklz on Friday September 11, 2020 @09:10AM
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> Most of it gets burnt or pyrolysed for heating and electricity.
Well, at least it doesn't get shipped around the world to then be dumped into the ocean...
Re:Pringles tube tries to wake from 'recycling nightmare'
by tutanchamun on Friday September 11, 2020 @04:37PM
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Yes, 1 or 2 years ago I saw a short piece about recycling plastics and what really is getting recycled in the end. Many products which would be easy to recycle didn't get recycled because they had fancy labels on them which made it hard or impossible for the machines which resulted in the plastics getting burned instead.