Recycling is a sham. There is mostly no efficient recycling of sufficiently advanced components, the industry just spent decades on making you think you can buy lots of cheap things and all that trash isn’t your problem. Well it is.
With enough energy we can separate anything into its elemental constituents.
“Recycling” as mentioned by the US press is a scam because we had humans walking over our trash in India manually recycling in such a dangerous way they banned our recycling.
Anything can be ground into dust and sent through a series of physiochemical processes to reconstitute.
Well. The "recycling" we’re talking about in this thread is a greenwashing lie to make consumers feel better about their irresponsible consumption.
The recycling you’re talking about is a science fiction trope, and utterly irrelevant here, because we don’t have a way of expending that much energy, let alone generate economically (or ecologically).
