• @Zerush@lemmy.ml
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    72 years ago

    What nonsense, it depends on the plastic used, many of the products of plastics are perfectly recyclable, also with less energy than glass. Both can be melted to manufacture new products, but glass needs temperatures above 1500º while for plastics 200º -250º is enough. There are many companies that recycle plastics to convert them into the most diverse products, from clothes and various fabrics, tools and housings, to filaments for 3D printers. Current plastic bags are manufactured with a base of plant remains Bio degradable), taking advantage of starch, and decompose in nature in a few weeks in their natural components.

    It is advisable to first find out about the plastic classes that exist, very different from each other and very different properties, such as completely different materials.

    As any product that is thrown into nature can cause problems, as is logical, glass bottles can even cause fires. But the problem does not lie in the material, but in the pigs that throw it anywhere, instead of picking it up after a visit to the forest or the beach, where the tides take this waste to the sea, throwing them into a container to avoid that the tides take this waste to the sea. I live on the coast and see how people sometimes leave the beach in the afternoon.