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~~Advanced~~ Recycling doesn't work because it was always a scam to maintain the status quo and fuck us all over in exchange for profit. They're finally having to show face. Fucking awful company.
Plastic recycling is bullshit. A lot of recycling is fine- paper, glass, metal, all recyclable. And they should be because we use up way too many trees, way too much sand and destructively mine way too much metal.
Good point! I'll one up and say reuse of those materials works exponentially better than recycling. And of course reduction of use is exponentially even better than that. But those words dont work well with the consumer capitalist oligarchs so they never talk about it.
Oddly enough, no one accepting glass as a recyclable material. It's always "more work than it worth". Infuriating.
I.e. not as cheap as killing the planet with plastics. Sure, there are environmental costs, but we won't see those this quarter!
Glass recycling is bullshit too.
Should be deposits and reuse on those, not [edit: as much focus on] recycling
Glass is not just used for bottles and some bottles break.
There's also a crisis right now regarding sand- https://theweek.com/news/science-health/960931/why-is-the-world-running-out-of-sand
Some break, yes. I’m not saying glass shouldn’t be recycled at all but it shouldn’t be the first and only step, the default go-to.
Sure. Although I would also suggest that we shouldn't be drinking so much of what is going into all the bottles- glass and plastic- to begin with.
That would be a plus too.
This is not even showing face. Only a fraction of the people that saw the initial announcement and subsequent PR will see this article. They'll still be seen as 'trying to pivot to renewables' or 'trying to mitigate pollution'.
Screw pledges. FORCE them to do shit.
I pledge to force them to keep their word
Pyrolysis is neither new nor advanced. It was also never going to happen and is worse than regular recycling of plastic. It was all PR. We need to rid ourselves of single use plastics.
worse than regular recycling of plastic
In case people don't know why it's worse - it uses a lot more energy to do pyrolysis than it does to just make new plastic. It's bad enough that it's worse for the environment than just making new plastic.
In any case no plastics recycler has any intention of doing this except in "pilot studies". It's a dead duck and everyone in the industry knows it. As /u/SeaJ said, it's just PR.
Plastic can only be recycled so much. Burn the too low quality to generate energy? Could get rid of a few oil power plants instead, there's enough plastic swimming in the sea.
"The people pulling strings behind the curtain at Shell slowly creep toward continuing to be world class cunts"
I really want everything to come in aluminum packages so that I can either recycle or reuse them
Water is wet.
Pope shits in woods etc
The problem, if anyone is wondering, is that it's hard. Most ways of doing it produce a lot of complicated heavy molecules with no real use (except fuel, but you could also just burn the plastic).