Message from @Goblin_Slayer_Floki
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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.
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.
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.
So they racheted down recycling here to the point you might as well not.
Most states that sell it to china and others are states that bannef the plants in their states for environmentalism
Irony there
and they act shocked when the beaches is still full of plastic
Yup, here in Kentucky you're allowed to burn it so long as your fire department thinks it's not during an excessively dry season
we can now only burn none treated wood and paper. anything else have to be recycled. and by recycled is that they put it in big containers that they sell to Sweden and then Sweden just burn it for heat
most recyceling is just a scam to make people feel better about themselves is my opinion
@Legiondude are you a hilltopper?
Not sure, never heard that term before
@Legiondude it's the mascot of WKU
Its a scam here for sure making 15 a can pickup. And you can only recycle clean paper milk jugs and cardboard.
And then they sell it to china.
Ah, "Western" Kentucky University, no @galesteppes
You can always find a different use for it. But to recycle it the plastic needs certain properties, one being the glass point temperature, which makes the material acquire glass like properties to be reshaped. Some plastics just don't have that feature.
And it's not that it's harder. It's that is not possible.
Different use is litterally recycling. And rubber can be melted down and reformed into new like bottles ect.
