The Delusion of Advanced Plastic Recycling Using Pyrolysis
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the plastic industry and their marketing arm have accomplished a lot for themselves but not for consumers who want to purchase sustainable goods
the hard truths of our materialism continue to be grounded in difficult to adopt consumer practices:
- buy less stuff
- avoid plastic
easier said the done, but i think the science of plastics and sustainability haven't found any easy answers to avoid it
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summary
The plastics industry has heralded a type of chemical recycling it claims could replace new shopping bags and candy wrappers with old ones — but not much is being recycled at all, and this method won’t curb the crisis. The article delves into the complexities and realities behind pyrolysis, an 'advanced' recycling method, revealing that it is not as effective or sustainable as it is portrayed.