• @[email protected]OPM
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    218 months ago

    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.

    • @n3m37h
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      128 months ago

      Yeah plastics is what I was referring to mainly. Worked in a recycling sorting facility and yeah, it wasn’t pretty.

    • Nougat
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      88 months ago

      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.