Recycling plastic produces a substance which is more easily burned as fuel than made into new products.
So companies can buy some of this substance from a plant that produces it from old plastic, set it on fire, and then claim that their products are some percentage recycled.
Nah, if I understood the article correctly they need to mix a bit of the pyrolysis material with a lot of new material and make a product to claim it’s made recycled. They can’t just burn the material and claim they’re making products from recycled plastic.
https://programming.dev/post/30203771
Copy of my comment from there:
Nah, if I understood the article correctly they need to mix a bit of the pyrolysis material with a lot of new material and make a product to claim it’s made recycled. They can’t just burn the material and claim they’re making products from recycled plastic.