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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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