Re:A Shocking Amount of US “Recycling” Goes Straight to the ...
by nostrademons on Monday October 24, 2022 @11:12PM
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Steel as well. The big integrated U.S. steelmakers like U.S. Steel went bankrupt because most steel today is no longer produced from iron ore. Rather, something like 80% of the steel produced today is made by melting down scrap steel in electric arc furnaces, which is a completely different technology & supply chain stack.
At this point, there is pretty much only one material that is actually recycled, because it is easy and profitable to do so: aluminum. We should eb enouraging manufacturers to adopt either aluminum or cardboard for all their packaging (the latter is not recyclable in practice, but at least is sequesters carbon). By encourage, I mean ban plastic packaging outright or impose draconian taxes on it.