salvage waste plastic and reimburse Canadians and retailers for dropping off scraps.
And then what? Pile it up? Throw it in the ocean? Put it on a rocket and throw it in the sun? There is no economically viable use for waste plastic, DuPont came up with the idea of recycling it so that people wouldn’t feel bad about throwing it away (and would buy more). The ONLY way to reduce plastic waste is to reduce plastic production.
I agree that reduced reliance on plastic, and production reduction of, is the best plastic plan, but until that happens we can still do the non perfect solution. While recycling plastic does have costs it shows that it is not 100% the cost of virgin plastics. I believe average was 70% energy. So there is still a benefit to the climate. Chemical and Bacterial recycling of plastics is also being researched. Plastic bottles are easily recyclable, but you can only put about %20 old material in with virgin pellets to get another acceptible bottle out. so it take 4-5 new bottles made to fully consume an old one. So it becomea a pyramid scheme we can’t escape. People really need to stop buying water in a bottle. There are better options for plastics like the online list of what other products we can make from old plastics, like new home building products, new road pylons, etc…something that needed to be made anyway.
But what a lot of people don’t realize is a lot of reclaimed plastic is made into fuel pellets, and used in place of coal or oil for power generarion…all those hydrocarbons are a replacemnt for pure petroleum products, and it has already been “refined” as a cleaner fuel. ( Obviouslu power plant has to scrub any volatiles and waste just like they would with other fuels)
in many cases industries are finding it difficult to source plastic fuel pellets and want more.
Trust me I know. I even like two spaces after a period. I’m running Jerboa mobile app on a custom OS, it does not play well with formatting, and I have been too lazy to trouble shoot if it is the keylayout app, jerboa or the OS.
i.e backspacing sometimes removes text elsewher, and pasting at a cursor often randomly inserts elsewhere in the text body, so paragraphs are not a priority atm.
And then what? Pile it up? Throw it in the ocean? Put it on a rocket and throw it in the sun? There is no economically viable use for waste plastic, DuPont came up with the idea of recycling it so that people wouldn’t feel bad about throwing it away (and would buy more). The ONLY way to reduce plastic waste is to reduce plastic production.
I agree that reduced reliance on plastic, and production reduction of, is the best plastic plan, but until that happens we can still do the non perfect solution. While recycling plastic does have costs it shows that it is not 100% the cost of virgin plastics. I believe average was 70% energy. So there is still a benefit to the climate. Chemical and Bacterial recycling of plastics is also being researched. Plastic bottles are easily recyclable, but you can only put about %20 old material in with virgin pellets to get another acceptible bottle out. so it take 4-5 new bottles made to fully consume an old one. So it becomea a pyramid scheme we can’t escape. People really need to stop buying water in a bottle. There are better options for plastics like the online list of what other products we can make from old plastics, like new home building products, new road pylons, etc…something that needed to be made anyway. But what a lot of people don’t realize is a lot of reclaimed plastic is made into fuel pellets, and used in place of coal or oil for power generarion…all those hydrocarbons are a replacemnt for pure petroleum products, and it has already been “refined” as a cleaner fuel. ( Obviouslu power plant has to scrub any volatiles and waste just like they would with other fuels) in many cases industries are finding it difficult to source plastic fuel pellets and want more.
It’s okay to use paragraphs.
Trust me I know. I even like two spaces after a period. I’m running Jerboa mobile app on a custom OS, it does not play well with formatting, and I have been too lazy to trouble shoot if it is the keylayout app, jerboa or the OS. i.e backspacing sometimes removes text elsewher, and pasting at a cursor often randomly inserts elsewhere in the text body, so paragraphs are not a priority atm.
For example, I left line feeds in my reply, but on my end they are showing as all smushed back together.
Ack! What an annoying issue, I forgive you.
Ironic your username is systemglitch