Would be nice to see more plastic actually recycled.
Of course, not sure how many microplastics this process leaves behind. I have some biodegradable plastic bags for mycology sitting on a shelf because I don't want to be feeding my vermicompost microplastic.
Yeah, microplastics seem to be overlooked too often when people talk about plastic recycling "solutions". The worst one I've ever seen was a video where they cut a plastic bottle into strands and then made a broom out of them...
It's much better than making a new broom out of plastic. It also avoids carbon melting the plastic into pellets then remelting into a new mold.
Crazy that people always forget it's Reduce, Reuse, and only then recycle. Like great let's collect all the plastic from the ocean and repurpose it but if we keep dumping more into the ocean only to recycle it later we really aren't solving the core issue
Also, avoiding waste entirely is the only sustainable solution. Recycled plastic items are inferior in quality and then end up in the ocean as microplastics.
Yup. The list is in that order for a reason!
Maybe it could, but it won't.
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