Re:Enzymes That Could Make It Cheaper to Recycle Than Make T...
by feet on Wednesday December 21, 2022 @11:30PM
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>Almost all plastic recyclables in the US is shipped to Asia and Africa. It’s simply not profitable to process here.
>90% of river-borne ocean plastic comes from 10 rivers in Asia and Africa
Sounds like it isn't profitable there either, so why are we shipping it
Re:Enzymes That Could Make It Cheaper to Recycle Than Make T...
by maria2 on Wednesday December 21, 2022 @11:34PM
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It is profitable to recycle plastic if you can pay people a few dollars a day to sort through it all to find the valuable pieces.
China’s change in recycling policy was caused by a documentary on the workers who sift through the countless volumes of plastic waste. It’s quite sad: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=6qZwo6U5YFY
Re:Enzymes That Could Make It Cheaper to Recycle Than Make T...
by winReInstall on Thursday December 22, 2022 @04:44AM
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The packed that waste on fishing ships who dumped it on the way out and brought back fish. So basically, we dumped our plastic into the ocean, but with a clean consciousness after a convuluted process..
Can we stop pretending that whatever bejing decrees becomes reality in the country it claims to rule over? Its a nice play-pretend facade and the socialist inspired reality below is usually quite dystopian..
We pretend to recycle and they pretend to care..
Almost all plastic recyclables in the US is shipped to Asia and Africa. It’s simply not profitable to process here.
From the article:
> Recently, however, China has made efforts to curb waste.
> For years the country had imported millions of tons of recyclable waste from overseas, but a growing recycling burden at home prompted the government to shift its policy.