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Bread and Circuses (@breadandcircuses) · 11/2022 · Tröts: 3.860 · Folger: 9.282
Mo 01.07.2024 15:30
Plastic recycling is a hoax. We know that.
Almost all of the plastic packaging and single-use plastic products people throw out every day will end up in a landfill, or an incinerator, or in the ocean.
And that’s true even if we use the recycle bin. Almost none of that plastic actually gets recycled.
Here are a few bits from an excellent long article about the myth of recycling...
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Plastic doesn’t break down in nature. If you turned all of what’s been made into cling wrap, it would cover every inch of the globe. It’s piling up, leaching into our water, and poisoning our bodies.
Now, the industry is heralding nothing short of a miracle: an “advanced” type of recycling known as pyrolysis — “pyro” means fire and “lysis” means separation. It uses heat to break plastic all the way down to its molecular building blocks.
Given the high stakes of this moment, I set out to understand exactly what the world is getting out of this recycling technology. For months, I tracked press releases, interviewed experts, tried to buy plastic made via pyrolysis, and learned more than I ever wanted to know about the science of recycled molecules.
Under all the math and engineering, I found an inconvenient truth: Not much is being recycled at all, nor is pyrolysis capable of curbing the plastic crisis.
Not now. Maybe not ever.
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FULL ARTICLE -- https://www.propublica.org/article/delusion-advanced-chemical-plastic-recycling-pyrolysis
#Health #Science #Environment #Pollution
Screenshot from top of linked article. Title is: "Selling a Mirage" Illustration shows polluted water in a pond, with plastic debris floating on the surface.
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