I remember seeing “green” crap back in the 90s and early aughts that were always going, “See, we take this plastic bottle, and grind it up into bits, then we combine it with some other stuff, mix in some asphalt, and presto, new road surface! New playground turf! Transform plasic into new plastic for all this other stuff!” It was so amazing we could take plastic and recycle it!
Then to find out years later that none of this ever happens. My state was sending bales of plastic to China to be recycled burned in incinerators until it became too expensive in 2018 or so.
It’s fun having been lied to for decades, only to find out it was all bullshit the whole time and we weren’t even trying to slow the use of plastic.
I remember seeing “green” crap back in the 90s and early aughts that were always going, “See, we take this plastic bottle, and grind it up into bits, then we combine it with some other stuff, mix in some asphalt, and presto, new road surface! New playground turf! Transform plasic into new plastic for all this other stuff!” It was so amazing we could take plastic and recycle it!
Then to find out years later that none of this ever happens. My state was sending bales of plastic to China to be
recycledburned in incinerators until it became too expensive in 2018 or so.It’s fun having been lied to for decades, only to find out it was all bullshit the whole time and we weren’t even trying to slow the use of plastic.