Recycling was a lie to sell more plastic, recycling industry veteran says

Re:Recycling was a lie to sell more plastic, recycling indus... by ravar on Wednesday October 07, 2020 @11:12PM (#24715298)

minor nitpick that doesn't change the substance of your point. 1.5 uses actually, the initial use is already 1/3 recycled. the correct calculation is 1/(1-r) where r=1/3. For example if you had to use 10% new material each time it is seems logical that you would get more than two uses out of the material. 1 use then .9 then .81 ect,

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Re:Recycling was a lie to sell more plastic, recycling indus... by PaulKeeble on Wednesday October 07, 2020 @11:25PM (#24715380)

Alas no, you can' recycle something that was made with recycled material. It gets at most one reuse if it was made out of 100% virgin plastic, everything else is throwaway, the recycled material poisons the rest.

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Re:Recycling was a lie to sell more plastic, recycling indus... by anticensor on Friday October 09, 2020 @08:38AM (#24729258)

Paper gets recycled twice: First grade paper→Third grade paper→Newspaper, or Cardboard→Cardboard→Cardboard.

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