Message from @Goblin_Slayer_Floki

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2018-11-07 20:40:15 UTC  

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

2018-11-07 20:41:15 UTC  

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...

2018-11-07 20:42:53 UTC  

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

2018-11-07 20:47:22 UTC  

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

2018-11-07 20:48:00 UTC  

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

2018-11-07 20:56:33 UTC  

@Goblin_Slayer_Floki not profitable to?

2018-11-07 21:07:58 UTC  

There are single use plastics

2018-11-07 21:08:12 UTC  

Some are impossible to recycle

2018-11-07 21:08:41 UTC  

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

2018-11-07 21:10:20 UTC  

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

2018-11-07 21:10:51 UTC  

why are they different?

2018-11-07 21:10:58 UTC  

chemical composition?

2018-11-07 21:11:05 UTC  

Basically

2018-11-07 21:11:19 UTC  

They are obtained differently and have different properties

2018-11-07 21:11:23 UTC  

"Plastics" is just an umbrella label?

2018-11-07 21:11:36 UTC  

I don't know the names in English sadlu

2018-11-07 21:11:43 UTC  

Yes

2018-11-07 21:12:17 UTC  

The correct term is polymers

2018-11-07 21:13:59 UTC  

There are Thermoplastics, Thermostables(?) and rubber like

2018-11-07 21:14:10 UTC  

Only Thermoplastics can be recycled

2018-11-07 21:29:25 UTC  

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

2018-11-07 21:29:40 UTC  

Rubber is also recyclable. Ie tires

2018-11-07 21:30:08 UTC  

Its just again. Not as profitable.

2018-11-07 22:28:43 UTC  

here it explains a bit ^

2018-11-07 22:29:09 UTC  

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

2018-11-07 22:33:31 UTC  

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

2018-11-07 22:33:47 UTC  

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

2018-11-07 22:34:33 UTC  

thats true, but its harder with some materials

2018-11-07 22:35:53 UTC  

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

2018-11-07 22:36:07 UTC  

and it works,

2018-11-07 22:36:20 UTC  

but mah aesthetics

2018-11-07 22:36:46 UTC  

although there could be made into a false-wall

2018-11-07 22:37:27 UTC  

but maybe is not profitable <:think_woke:378717098681171988>

2018-11-07 22:43:24 UTC  

not really related to recycling but vulcanisation is cool shit

2018-11-08 00:26:45 UTC  

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

2018-11-08 00:27:08 UTC  

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

2018-11-08 00:28:31 UTC  

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

2018-11-08 00:29:08 UTC  

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

2018-11-08 00:30:16 UTC  

fleece clothes is made from recycled pet bottles

2018-11-08 00:30:24 UTC  

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