Comment on Costco changed the bag to plastic!!
tyler@programming.dev 3 weeks agoThat’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.
ObtuseDoorFrame@lemmy.zip 3 weeks 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.
tyler@programming.dev 3 weeks 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….
ObtuseDoorFrame@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
Okay, so this one frisbee company disputes the countless articles published with sources about how plastic degrades when it’s recycled and… you expect me to just go with that instead of NPR articles.
I doubt the demand for frisbees is high enough to be an encompassing solution for our plastic problem, but I like the idea.
tyler@programming.dev 2 weeks ago
The countless articles made with money by industries that don’t want to use recycled plastic cause it would buy into their bottom line? Yeah I’m gonna believe the one that actually showed the process and tests they did and are willing to make less money by reusing plastic.
Why would the quality degrading matter for cheap plastic shit coming from other industries? You don’t need your shampoo bottle to last longer, you don’t need your deodorant stick container to last longer. The only reason they wouldn’t use recycled plastic is because it’s going to cut into their profit.