A lot of plastic can’t be recycled even once, and almost no plastic can be re-recycled. From Cara Michelle Miller at The Epoch Times via zerohedge.com:
People may be putting plastic into recycling bins, but most of it generally ends up in landfills or incinerated.
Yet the demand for more plastic production continues—at a growing cost to human and environmental health—because of the belief that recycling offsets the associated waste and risks. A new report by the Center for Climate Integrity (CCI) alleges that the plastics industry knowingly caused the current plastic waste crisis.
The nonprofit’s report claims that as the plastics industry faced mounting concerns over plastics being incinerated and piling up in landfills, they promoted recycling as a viable solution while dismissing it internally as impractical.
“They knew since the 1970s that plastic recycling was not going to be scalable and effective in tackling the plastic waste crisis,” Melissa Valliant, communications director of Beyond Plastics, a nonprofit aiming to reduce single-use plastic use and production, explained to The Epoch Times.
The report asserts that the efforts to sell the false promise of plastic recycling were to avoid restrictive regulations and potential product bans.
Is that plastic bottles island still growing in the ocean?
If you smash the cans and fill a 55 gallon contractor’s bag, you can get about $40 at the recycler that doesn’t do change.
If your total is $14.01, you get $15.
During Sandbox Iraq II found a gigantor water heater with the copper still on it and got almost $100.
Harold the Brain found a guardrail portion during local bridge redux and got about $30 for that, it barely fit into the mobile!
Saw a wymyns at the recycler with her auto filled to the gills with plastic, she didn’t get very much.
Just searched and the states with the most recycling of all containers are CPUSA (D) occupied.
With cans it’s worth it if you have five or six bags, with plastics you would need a tractor trailer full.