Comment on Costco changed the bag to plastic!!

FelixCress@lemmy.world ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

• ObtuseDoorFrame@lemmy.zip ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  No. This is a myth perpetuated by huge companies who create a lot of single use plastic.

  There isn’t a type of plastic in existence that can be recycled without degrading in quality. A plastic bottle cannot be used to create a new bottle. This is why less than 5% of plastic waste is actually recycled.

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  • tyler@programming.dev ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    That’s just categorically false. Trash Panda Disc Golf does a video on just that myth. The problem with recycling has nothing to do with degradation. It has to do with economics. New plastic is cheap. Reusing plastic isn’t.

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    • ObtuseDoorFrame@lemmy.zip ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Uh huh. I have also watched videos and read articles supporting what I just said. Scotch tape is a great example because it’s so brittle… almost useless for any application other than temporarily taping paper to something. It shows how weak plastic gets when it’s recycled.

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      • tyler@programming.dev ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Trash Panda isn’t an article, they’re a disc golf manufacturer that solely uses recycled plastic. They’ve tested with recycling the exact same plastic more than ten times. And I have no clue what you are talking about with scotch tape, it’s literally designed to be tearable, just like the Costco bag in the picture….

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  • FelixCress@lemmy.world ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    without degrading in quality.

    I didn’t say it can. You can still recycle it, just not into the same product.

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    • ObtuseDoorFrame@lemmy.zip ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Into what? Scotch tape? 2 by 4’s for decking material? One can only make so much of those things before the low demand is met.

      Like I said, almost none of it gets recycled because the resulting products are too weak. Not only that, but plastic “recycling” is one of the primary ways that micro plastics get into our bodies.

      arstechnica.com/…/yet-another-problem-with-recycl…

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      • altphoto@lemmy.today ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        They should use it as filler for potholes. Fibers would composite into stronger flexible quieter roads…or sobI dare to guess.

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• three@lemmy.zip ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Highly dependent on where you live and what the capabilities of the recycling facility are.

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  • FelixCress@lemmy.world ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    True.

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