If you reuse the same plastic multiple times, doesn't that reduce the total amount of plastic needed to produce the same number of goods, thus reducing plastic pollution?
Recycling is complicated, because only certain polymers can be recycled, then it has to be separated from contaminants, transported, sorted and re-shipped to re-use facilities (often in China). A lot of improvements are needed for this to be both lucrative and effective [0]. Then there's the microplastics that still spread across the globe.
tmikaeld|2 years ago
[0] https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2022/gc/d2gc0...