“Recycling” served its purpose to raise consciousness around closed-loop material flows, but it’s kinda good that the myth is collapsing. Outside of a few things like aluminum it’s unclear whether it’s net any good environmentally.https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/16/business/local-recycling-costs.html?smtyp=cur&smid=tw-nytimes …
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Replying to @bysl
We need local neighborhood aluminum smelters and PET pelletizers
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Replying to @vgr
Gotta make more stuff out of aluminum and PET. Better local recycling economics and easier to sort it from waste. (Someday, maybe unrecycled waste is the exception to be managed and not the rule.)
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Replying to @vgr
Dammit. Now I’m going to spend the evening trying to figure out why I didn’t think of that.
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Replying to @bysl
Well since the underlying idea is yours you’re welcome to it 
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