German energy giant RWE has begun dismantling a wind farm to make way for a further expansion of an open-pit lignite coal mine in the Western region of North Rhine Westphalia.

German energy giant RWE has begun dismantling a wind farm to make way for a further expansion of an open-pit lignite coal mine in the western region of North Rhine Westphalia.

I thought renewables were cheaper than coal. How is this possible?

  • dubyakay
    22·
    1 year ago

    Basically only resin codes 1 and 2 are recyclable. But most people think all of it is

    I read somewhere that this is false and all of them are recyclable. Don’t quote me on it though.

    • Rambi@lemm.ee
      3·
      1 year ago

      I think you can technically recycle probably almost any plastic, perhaps almost any material in general. It’s just a question of if the recycling process is affordable and competes in price with just buying the unrecycled version of that plastic. So other plastics besides PET and HDPE I’m sure you can recycle, it’s just that the cost is prohibitive.

    • SeaJ@lemm.ee
      2·
      1 year ago

      Technically yes but there has to be the infrastructure to do it. Most cities cannot process them. It’s also generally not profitable and does not save much from an emissions standpoint either.