Author Topic: China Has Refused To Recycle The West's Plastics. What Now?  (Read 2747 times)

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Re: China Has Refused To Recycle The West's Plastics. What Now?
« Reply #25 on: July 19, 2018, 12:08:59 AM »
Doesn't Eco-friendly Sweden burn all their trash ??  

Yes, yes they do.
http://www.iflscience.com/environment/less-1-swedens-trash-ends-landfills/


All metals can and should be recycled, as it is usually cheaper and easier then mining ore, processing it, etc.


When I was in Germany glass was sorted by color (Clear, Green, Brown) and recycled/melted down to make new bottles.
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Re: China Has Refused To Recycle The West's Plastics. What Now?
« Reply #26 on: July 19, 2018, 12:16:11 AM »
You can throw it into a pressure cooker and get oil similar to crude out of it. Any carbon organic chemistry waste stream really.  Although it might not always be a net energy gain, but combined with keeping it out of landfills, and from getting into the food chain might be worth it.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermal_depolymerization

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Re: China Has Refused To Recycle The West's Plastics. What Now?
« Reply #27 on: July 19, 2018, 01:03:06 AM »
I am trying to not throw away any paper. All going to compost.
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Re: China Has Refused To Recycle The West's Plastics. What Now?
« Reply #28 on: July 19, 2018, 04:10:27 PM »
no big loss.  They don't even recycle their OWN plastic garbage