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Conservatives: keep it down! (slrpnk.net)

submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] PilferJynx 6 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Basically it costs too much to recycle most plastic. It's just so much cheaper to sell it to impoverished countries that will either burn it or dump it somewhere.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

Maybe if we could solve for plasma arc gasification plants to turn garbage into clean energy. But not presently

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