silence7@slrpnk.netM to Climate - truthful information about climate, related activism and politics.@slrpnk.netEnglish · 8 months ago
silence7@slrpnk.netM to Climate - truthful information about climate, related activism and politics.@slrpnk.netEnglish · 8 months ago
Recycling is highly variable by material.
It really happens with steel scrap, and makes a meaningful difference.
It’s plastic where it’s marketed as a thing but doesn’t really happen except with a few percent of production.
Yeah plastics is what I was referring to mainly. Worked in a recycling sorting facility and yeah, it wasn’t pretty.
Even that few percent, I bet a vanishingly small amount is post-consumer. They’re mainly taking the trimmed waste from molding and putting it back into the production line.