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How the 'circular economy' went from environmentalist dream to marketing buzzword (grist.org)
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[–] Gsus4@feddit.nl 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Man...the only safe way to repurpose plastic is to "kill it with fire" in especially prepared industrial icinerators, that's how bad it is. If you make soles out of it, synthetic lumber, textiles...all the downcycling methods end up just getting plastic eroded into the ground, the waterways :/