04-01-2020, 01:55 PM
If you're like me, you might have a fine collection of #1, #2, #5, and other sundry plastic containers slowly building up in the hopes that Puna Precious Plastics is able to start collecting again and make something, anything, with this material.
However, NPR ran a segment a couple days back as to how the recycling programs for decades were essentially PR scams from the oil industry and the vast majority of plastics were not, and could not, ever be recycled.
Still remaining hopeful (that the change, it had to come, we knew it all along) and
1) somebody finds a use for this abundant oil byproduct (tip my hat to the new constitution)
2) manufacturers finally start to move away from it (we don't get fooled again)
https://www.npr.org/2020/03/31/822597631...f-plastics
"For decades, Americans have been sorting their trash believing that most plastic could be recycled. But the truth is, the vast majority of all plastic produced can't be or won't be recycled. In 40 years, less than 10% of plastic has ever been recycled.
In a joint investigation, NPR and the PBS series Frontline found that oil and gas companies — the makers of plastic — have known that all along, even as they spent millions of dollars telling the American public the opposite."
Both more text and the audio for the story at the link.
However, NPR ran a segment a couple days back as to how the recycling programs for decades were essentially PR scams from the oil industry and the vast majority of plastics were not, and could not, ever be recycled.
Still remaining hopeful (that the change, it had to come, we knew it all along) and
1) somebody finds a use for this abundant oil byproduct (tip my hat to the new constitution)
2) manufacturers finally start to move away from it (we don't get fooled again)
https://www.npr.org/2020/03/31/822597631...f-plastics
"For decades, Americans have been sorting their trash believing that most plastic could be recycled. But the truth is, the vast majority of all plastic produced can't be or won't be recycled. In 40 years, less than 10% of plastic has ever been recycled.
In a joint investigation, NPR and the PBS series Frontline found that oil and gas companies — the makers of plastic — have known that all along, even as they spent millions of dollars telling the American public the opposite."
Both more text and the audio for the story at the link.