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Re:Recycling was a lie to sell more plastic, recycling indus... by ars on Wednesday October 07, 2020 @11:32PM (#24715426)
> you should be able to break it down to it's constituents and refine it to something indistinguishable from the normal feed stock. Woukd it be horrendously energy intensive ? Most likely!

Or ... just burn it for energy, and thereby pump less oil.

Sure you'll need more oil for more plastic, but you come out ahead because by burning the plastic you save some oil.

This whole plastic recycling stuff makes zero sense.

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Re:Recycling was a lie to sell more plastic, recycling indus... by zbrozek on Wednesday October 07, 2020 @11:50PM (#24715556)
AFAIK Japan does this and it works out OK for them. But I'd love to read more about it if there are decent English sources.
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Re:Recycling was a lie to sell more plastic, recycling indus... by PaulKeeble on Thursday October 08, 2020 @12:22AM (#24715769)
Greenwich council in the London, UK does this. They have the worst recycling of any area in the UK and part of the reason is they burn almost all the plastic they gather from recycling, just 5% by volume gets recycled and the rest is burnt.
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Re:Recycling was a lie to sell more plastic, recycling indus... by fomine3 on Thursday October 08, 2020 @08:14PM (#24725401)
This article(ja) looks good to read via translate.

https://synodos.jp/society/22945

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