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The goal is not to be able to recycle plastic. Plastic recycling typically turns plastic into microplastic, like polyester fiber. If your goal is to reduce the impact of plastic on the environment, you should be profoundly opposed to recycling. Even the "most suitable" plastics for recycling are recycled, they break down in the process, and leak macro plastic into the wild through the various additional transport chains that are required for consumers to mail their used plastic to a recycling facility.

The best place for plastic that has been used is buried in a giant pit, and the second best place is burned to CO2 in a high oxygen furnace.




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