Plastics are a huge damage to the environment, and the less we produce and consume, the better

The best step to take, is to end with single use plastic products, ie bags, cups and other table ware, plastic packaging and wrapping etc...

Make people reuse plastics to reduce waste, or simply substitute plastics out of the daily lives, by using cloth bags for shopping which you can use infinitely, using recycled paper straws, recycling plastics by melting them down for other uses

Tbf there is no such thing as "single use plastics" just "plastivs the recycle companies dont want"

But all of them can technically be melted down and reused. The companies just wont.

@Goblin_Slayer_Floki not profitable to?

There are single use plastics

Some are impossible to recycle

Some plastics burn when heated and can't be re-used

There's basically 3 large groups, which only plastics from 1 group can be recycled.

why are they different?

chemical composition?

Basically

They are obtained differently and have different properties

"Plastics" is just an umbrella label?

I don't know the names in English sadlu

Yes

The correct term is polymers

There are Thermoplastics, Thermostables(?) and rubber like

Only Thermoplastics can be recycled

@galesteppes naw its profit. Single use can be melted down ilat lower temps. And made into more that fall in the single use

Rubber is also recyclable. Ie tires

Its just again. Not as profitable.

https://youtu.be/YduOEGBtNfo?t=190

here it explains a bit ^

SOME single use might be able to be recycled, but it all depends on the polymer

shredding and compressing some single use plastics with other shit allows it to be reused also

they're always finding creative new ways to recycle previously unrecyclable shit

thats true, but its harder with some materials

they've tried using old tires to muffle sound in rooms where loud noises are recurring

and it works,

but mah aesthetics

although there could be made into a false-wall

but maybe is not profitable <:think_woke:378717098681171988>

not really related to recycling but vulcanisation is cool shit

@Aldoggo its not harder. Just more expensive. Recycling is just as much a business as everythibg else.

They just get money on 2 ends. Once for pickup, and once again selling the shit.

and for years the solution for plastic waste was just to sell it to china, to bad they just dump in in the sea and now it washing up on the beaches to the people that did sell it to china in the first place

Sometimes. They do make clothing from some of it and sell that to us.

fleece clothes is made from recycled pet bottles

But yea even china is like. "Your plastic isnt good enough" to oregon.