Comment on REDcycle founder says she had 'no doubt' stockpiled plastic would be recycled
Majoof@aussie.zone 11 months ago
Genuine question:
Assume that it’s financial viable, is there anything stopping me from establishing a manufacturing facility whose goal is to produce as much plastic waste as possible?
Because if there isn’t, there’s our problem…
zik@aussie.zone 11 months ago
There are no facilities in Australia which can recycle soft plastics in commercial quantities. It requires a special process which is very energy intensive and expensive to run (“depolymerisation”). The only country in the world which does it at commercial scale is Japan, and even the they only process around 10% of their soft plastics. So, it’s better than the 0% we do here.
It’s unlikely to ever be done here in Australia because it’s a lot more expensive than just making new plastic.