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Re:A Laptop Stand Made from a Single Sheet of Recycled Paper by userbinator on Monday January 13, 2025 @09:40PM (#42692820)
I mean, recycling a plastic bag is probably more expensive than making one.

Collect enough, and you can melt them into solid blocks that could be used like this laptop stand. Recycling common plastic of the same type (PE, PP) is actually easily done with commonly available equipment, unlike paper.

Re:A Laptop Stand Made from a Single Sheet of Recycled Paper by Ekaros on Tuesday January 14, 2025 @03:01AM (#42694856)
Likely depends on system. In multi-stream system I think paper is likely economically net positive in recycling. It scales well enough to large plants to reasonably complete with pristine material. Also many use case like cardboard for shipping is suitable use cases.