BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote:Free market plastics recycling IS profitable. Massively so.Then how it is that there are no people driving the streets with tractors and asking you to give them old plastics? You know, like there are people driving the streets with tractors asking you to give them old iron? An obvious answer seems to be: because recycling iron is profitable, while recycling plastics is not.
BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote:The fire happened not because of government regulation, but because those regulations were not being adhered to.I am not saying it happened because of the regulation, I am saying it happened because of the EU policies making recycling plastics profitable.
BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote:The fumes from burning plastic, while clearly dangerous to human health, are much less damaging - long term - than the only other options, which include the unrestricted dumping of plastic waste and the manufacturing of new plastics.But the problem is that only around 20% of plastics even can be recycled with modern technology, and only 5% actually is. So having factories recycling plastics decreases the problem by 5%, while massively increasing the chances of plastics catching fire.
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