Can Chemical Recycling Solve The World's Plastic Problem?

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  @michaels9595 · 6 years ago

  Imagine a future where mining for plastic from buried landfills is a thing.

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• NI

  @ninjanerdstudent6937 · 6 years ago

  Tax breaks for using recycled plastics will get businesses on board.  Businesses hate taxes.

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• MI

  @MichaelSmith-fj7di · 6 years ago

  We need to reduce and reuse first. Yes, recycle, but reduce and reuse first. There's a reason why recycling comes last.

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  @islamkhalil1131 · 5 years ago

  The guy in the video said it perfectly. We’re trying to solve the problem downstream. We should be fixing the problem from the source.

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• PA

  @pasticcinideliziosi1259 · 6 years ago (edited)

  Here in Veneto, Italy, we recycle every thing in houses, from paper and glass  to plastics, even if the biggest part of the industries don’t recycle anything.

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• KT

  @ktaragorn · 6 years ago

  I feel like recycling gives people a feel good reason to keep consuming plastic. The best way to deal with the plastic water bottle is to not use em.

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• SY

  @Sylvan_dB · 6 years ago

  I seem to have missed how you answered the hard questions: How do you deal with plastic contaminated with food or other waste? How do you separate the different types of plastic or deal with cross contamination?

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• BW

  @bweber9468 · 6 years ago (edited)

  It's really quite simple. Make plastics a higher taxed product whether it's produced in locally or imported. Take those taxes and use those same taxes as a kickback for recycling companies so that those companies can see a profit from their products. We tax literally EVERYTHING else, why not?

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• SP

  @Spaghettified_Ryan · 6 years ago

  We need to be using more of that mushroom mycilum containers.

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• RO

  @ronkirk5099 · 6 years ago

  I seen much of this crap myself while sailing the oceans and paddling rivers. In the U.S. plastic is found washed up along shores in large quantities everywhere. Much of this plastic discarded along roads ends up in storm drains, then to streams, then to rivers and finally into the ocean.

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• VE

  @Vedrajrm · 6 years ago

  Plastic: I’m a virgin <br>Me: so am I

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• XC

  @Xclann · 6 years ago

  <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LPllpwMuV9Y&amp;t=700">11:40</a> I agree that the main approach should be to impose a fee on producers of virgin plastics... spending all this money on trying to prop up recycling industry itself is not very efficient; producers must contribute to the waste they are causing.

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