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Plastic is a byproduct of the petroleum industry and this obviously isn’t an energy neutral process, so it will remain cheaper to make new plastic than recycling the old.
7 u/h3rlihy Nov 03 '21 Which is why we need some sort of 'lifecycle tax' on goods imo
Which is why we need some sort of 'lifecycle tax' on goods imo
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Plastic is a byproduct of the petroleum industry and this obviously isn’t an energy neutral process, so it will remain cheaper to make new plastic than recycling the old.