Greenpeace gives up on recycling plastic
Posted By: DVC, 10/31/2022 11:33:08 PM
Recycling almost everything is an uneconomic scam[i], but that hasn’t stopped many localities from enforcing recycling mandates, and employing lots of people to sort through garbage and spend large sums on trying to find another use for the materials. At great expense to taxpayers. But finally, Greenpeace has realized that recycling plastic makes no sense. In City Journal, John Tierney writes: Greenpeace has seen the light, or at least a glimmer of rationality. The group has issued a report accompanied by a press release headlined, “Plastic Recycling Is A Dead-End Street—Year After Year, Plastic Recycling Declines Even as Plastic Waste Increases.” The group’s overall policy remains delusional
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Greenpeace gives up on recycling plastic
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Recycling almost everything is an uneconomic scam[i], but that hasn’t stopped many localities from enforcing recycling mandates, and employing lots of people to sort through garbage and spend large sums on trying to find another use for the materials. At great expense to taxpayers.
But finally, Greenpeace has realized that recycling plastic makes no sense. In City Journal, John Tierney writes:
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billion's worth of expired face masks
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Even the ecocrazies at Greenpeace have realized that this is a total loser. But they propose and EVEN STUPIDER "fix", of course. Burn the plastic in high temp furnaces and get the energy back out of the hydrocarbons, at least.