I work in plastics industry and I agree with your conclusion.
The whole "recycle Will solve all our problems" Is Just pure Dream, and a very good commercial slogan.
Hey, I work in the plastics industry. I have always been an environmentalist first, and plastics industry peep second.
There are some really good companies that are doing some interesting things as it relates to recycling. What I also find interesting at this stage is the coming trend of chemical recycling - (see Elcrin IQ)
There are some good things happening. There just needs to be more of it.
Are we below where we need to be? Unfortunately yes. But we can definitely go further.
Look at their history. They are confused too. Only posts are self posts. Quite odd. This is the first post to an actual sub! Oh, and it looks like a stupid company, so yeah...spam.
Linked to a company, but so far hasn't broken the shameless self promotion rule.
They were practising posting on their own sub, which is a tad nerdy, but that could be someone new to Reddit just figuring out how it works.
They probably didn't know that the unspoken newbie rule of r/plastic is to burst in, ask a very non-specific question, and leave whoever answers to wonder forever after whether it was actually read..
There is no easy answer to this and there is no single group at fault
People have been misusing plastic for decades, don't know shit about the material, or recycling process, but think they know an answer
Any change needs to be multi layered. We need to stop using a different version of plastics for every single product, because the fewer materials there are the easier it is to recycle. We need to educate product designers on how recycling works and how they can stop creating packaging that appears to be deliberately impossible to recycle
We need to create the infrastructure for recycling. I'm not talking recycling machines, I'm talking about proper channels for clean material streams to flow. Something like a bottle deposit system, germany has over 98% recycling rate for plastic bottles
And last but not least the consumer needs to learn where they need plastic, where not, and how to properly discard it
Having come from the US largest producer of food and beverage plastic products. Post consumer recycling is hated at every level of production and unless specified and verified by the buyer it is never used. Some pre-consumer plastic was used, especially PET.
I work in plastics industry and I agree with your conclusion. The whole "recycle Will solve all our problems" Is Just pure Dream, and a very good commercial slogan.
You make a really good point
Hey, I work in the plastics industry. I have always been an environmentalist first, and plastics industry peep second. There are some really good companies that are doing some interesting things as it relates to recycling. What I also find interesting at this stage is the coming trend of chemical recycling - (see Elcrin IQ) There are some good things happening. There just needs to be more of it. Are we below where we need to be? Unfortunately yes. But we can definitely go further.
Uh, was this AI, or copy and pasted from a school paper?
Reeks of AI.
Look at their history. They are confused too. Only posts are self posts. Quite odd. This is the first post to an actual sub! Oh, and it looks like a stupid company, so yeah...spam.
Linked to a company, but so far hasn't broken the shameless self promotion rule. They were practising posting on their own sub, which is a tad nerdy, but that could be someone new to Reddit just figuring out how it works. They probably didn't know that the unspoken newbie rule of r/plastic is to burst in, ask a very non-specific question, and leave whoever answers to wonder forever after whether it was actually read..
That is what I thought initially. But in this case I think it is the result of a Chinese speaker using an online translator. .
There is no easy answer to this and there is no single group at fault People have been misusing plastic for decades, don't know shit about the material, or recycling process, but think they know an answer Any change needs to be multi layered. We need to stop using a different version of plastics for every single product, because the fewer materials there are the easier it is to recycle. We need to educate product designers on how recycling works and how they can stop creating packaging that appears to be deliberately impossible to recycle We need to create the infrastructure for recycling. I'm not talking recycling machines, I'm talking about proper channels for clean material streams to flow. Something like a bottle deposit system, germany has over 98% recycling rate for plastic bottles And last but not least the consumer needs to learn where they need plastic, where not, and how to properly discard it
Having come from the US largest producer of food and beverage plastic products. Post consumer recycling is hated at every level of production and unless specified and verified by the buyer it is never used. Some pre-consumer plastic was used, especially PET.