Post #3396993
2026-06-18 03:35 UTC
Those are likely PET bottles which are highly recyclable. There are a few plastics that are recyclable in large enough pieces. It’s just that so much of our packaging and products are just mixed or thin plastics with a lot of printing which are not in any way recyclable.
Now when I say recyclable I mean plausibly do-able at scale, with a decent quality output material suitable as feedstock for manufacturing, not profitably recyclable. I don’t think any plastic recycling is profitable.
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@agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works 2026-06-18 03:49
Even the plastics that are actually able to be recycled generally aren’t. I still throw them in the recycling bin, but all the evidence suggests that the vast majority of recyclable plastics specifically sorted to be recycled just… aren’t.