Sort of a non story. Places that have regular collection don't stop collecting if a plant moves or is over capacity. It is stored. Stopping collection till plant opens gets people out of the habit of separating recyclables ar home. The quote about fuel pellets creating fumes, it is in place of oil burning for heat/energy. Oil releases same fumes, and using plastic fuel while not ideal use, reduces oil and coal mining and processingbto get a usable heat source.
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Almost no plastic gets recycled. I believe the last number I read about was less than 9%
This is a non story for those who have read about the scam "recycling plastics" is
To me that is an attempt by corporations to make you forget about recycling and not care what is produced...like ah eff it whats the point. Each country and state, and city is different. I'm in Vancouver they claim 96% recycle rate of what is collected. My family member works at a recycle facility where they sort and regrind material into pellets for resale. The industries often can't get enough pellets that they desire, especially because price of plastic is tied to oil prices. So when oil goes up manufactures desire more recycced pellets because it is cheaper. Eapecially in auto industry where recycle mixed in has mandate to come from autograde material. What isn't usable becomes fuel pellets. We don't do films here, but I believe Germany had set up plastic film recycling. But a US company has developed a method of taking plastic films and old starbucks coffee grounds to make stacking pallets, instead of wood pallets.
Hey this is all good news to my hears... Happy to hear that at least in some locales, recycling actually happens
I haven given up, I recycle all I can but I was always sad knowing barely any gets recycled. I figured at least we have the habit so when someday we do recycle we are not starting from scratch
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