Posted on 10/30/2022 4:22:31 PM PDT by george76
Burn it.
Most of the plastic you recycle goes into a landfill or is burned anyway.
BURN IT!!!
The sooner your burn it the sooner the CO2 will go back and be put back into PLANTS!
Yepp - as long as it’s not contaminated with heavy-metal additives, it’s essentially petroleum in a solid phase, ready to release much-needed heat energy as it gets converted to carbon dioxide and water.
zactly!
I would think they should be able to mix it in with building materials...I install a lot of plastic tongue and groove for decking and the like...use it that way...just a thought.
Right. Like most liberal initiatives, including windmills and solar, it’s just virtue signaling Kabuki that ultimately wastes more energy than it saves. But truth is irrelevant to liberals. It’s the appearance that counts.
I don’t know if you are a fan of Warhammer 40k but, in the sci-fi world they heavily depend upon plascrete as a building material.
Why do you think like me? Are you an agitator?
My Material Science professor taught us this in 1990.
Time that states impose a bottle return cost on plastic water bottles. It worked for beer bottles and cans.....cleaned up the streets immediately.
Anyone who has ever washed their own dishes knows this.
Reusing dishes takes energy in several forms. Getting the water to your house takes energy. Heating the water up takes energy. Making the soap takes energy, and getting the soap to from the soap factory to your house takes energy. It takes your own personal time and energy to then wash the dishes. And the pots and pans. And the glasses and silverware. If you have a dishwasher, it takes much more energy than if you wash them by hand.
That's what it takes to "recycle" your kitchen ware.
I don't know how many millennials have ever washed their own dishes. Probably not very many. And even fewer have ever thought about how much energy it takes to accomplish this simple "recycling" task.
As thorium power advocate Kirk Sorensen says, anyone who is for recycling has to be for cheap, abundant energy.
He points out that with enough energy, you can recycle plutonium.
“ Burn it.”
At very high temperatures and convert it to energy.
I’m a troll. But I only troll leftists. It’s too easy.🤣
We can’t throw plastic in landfills because it will end up in the ocean and kill ocean life. have you not seen the documentaries of plastic masses in the ocean? Even the landfills of Iowa will end up in the ocean . . wait! How does that work? How could that happen??? Instead of me being the problem, China and India dumping plastic directly in the ocean are the problem. So how come that makes me be the bad guy?
I’m not going to say his name but I have a friend getting paid some serious money to manage a county recycling facility . The green conscious consumer separates it and puts it in the respective bin . Then when the truck picks it up it all goes straight to the landfill with all the other trash . It makes the people imagine that they are somehow better than those poor ignorant slobs throwing everything in the trash . For that my friend is making a very good living . We drink beer and laugh about it . He buys the beer so I laugh too , heh .
Bury it. It takes eons to decompose and thus is a massive carbon sink.
And that's after dealing with the "Italian" markup for trash disposal.
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