Comment on This Plastic Mr. Fantastic

• F_State@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  In most countries, recycling paper only made financial sense if they shipped it to poor countries or used prison labor so it could be inexpensively sorted thru. Traditionally it was China, but they stopped accepting it. And letting microorganisms do what they do consumes less resources like electricity and less industrial chemicals.

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  • causepix@lemmy.ml ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    In Germany the recycling is sorted at the household level, rather than the mixed recycling that is practiced in the US.

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    • F_State@midwest.social ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      When recycling first started where I live, we had multiple bins. Paper, and i want to say metal/glass and plastic. Plus garbage and yard waste. But I’m refering to the fact that paper by itself faces additional sorting prior to recycling.

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• gallopingsnail@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I would guess that it’s because recycling requires energy input, while compost doesn’t require hardly any energy.

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  • blubfisch@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I am pretty sure recycling does not require more energy than using fresh trees. You can even use the waste pulp to produce biogas.

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