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minus-squaresilence7OPMlinkfedilinkarrow-up21·5 months agoRecycling is highly variable by material. It really happens with steel scrap, and makes a meaningful difference. It’s plastic where it’s marketed as a thing but doesn’t really happen except with a few percent of production.
minus-squaren3m37h@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up11·5 months agoYeah plastics is what I was referring to mainly. Worked in a recycling sorting facility and yeah, it wasn’t pretty.
minus-squareNougat@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up8·5 months agoEven that few percent, I bet a vanishingly small amount is post-consumer. They’re mainly taking the trimmed waste from molding and putting it back into the production line.
Recycling is highly variable by material.
It really happens with steel scrap, and makes a meaningful difference.
It’s plastic where it’s marketed as a thing but doesn’t really happen except with a few percent of production.
Yeah plastics is what I was referring to mainly. Worked in a recycling sorting facility and yeah, it wasn’t pretty.
Even that few percent, I bet a vanishingly small amount is post-consumer. They’re mainly taking the trimmed waste from molding and putting it back into the production line.