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How to recycle plastics
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strawberry:
Some say it is impossible/expensive/needs new tech
Jobs are more important than short term profit gains
ataradov:
This whole thing hinges on everyone washing the plastic. And by the looks of it, washing it pretty well. While not impossible, this goes against the "idea" of this packaging, and may be hard to implement in other places.

Also, this is clearly not washable in a washing machine, so a manual wash would be needed. This would consume a fair bit of water.

There has to be a better solution. Like reusable containers and utensils.
strawberry:
they wash plastics in factory anyway and reuse filtered water

--- Quote from: ataradov on August 02, 2022, 05:50:09 pm ---There has to be a better solution. Like reusable containers and utensils.

--- End quote ---
manual washing anyway.
single use stuff is on consumer expense
reusable would be inevitably on company expense.. hiring more people , lowering profit margins
someone like mcdonalds wont return to 20's century
langwadt:
as long as we are burning fossil fuel to make heat and electricity, just incinerate the plastic to make heat/electricity, it is basically oil anyway
abquke:
According to my latest print copy of the IEEE Spectrum, AI will fix recycling forever because AI.
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