Plastics are a waste product of distilling oil into gasoline, and unlike metals, paper or glass, no amount of recycling will reduce primary plastic production, or the problem of its disposal.
From an email to a friend:
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Don't ever forget that plastics are a waste product from the distillation of gas from oil. They need to get rid of high molecular weight carbon chains that are all tangled together, or spend a lot more on dangerous, expensive chemicals to cut them up. Distillation and...