A man has decided it’s easier to become a climate change denier than spend 90% of his free time scrubbing out the remnants of an M&S Broccoli Cheese or Waitrose Cannelloni in order to recycle …
Am doing work with plastics. When someone says “made with 100% recycled plastic” I automatically know it’ll be brittle and it’ll suck. Sadly, plastic isn’t really recyclable. The bonds break down in the injection machine itself if you leave it a minute too long (heated). Now imagine getting a product that was injected properly, cutting it up, then remelting it, making pellets out of it and then melting those pellets to inject again. Plastic isn’t metal, it doesn’t melt and freeze without loss of strength.
Am doing work with plastics. When someone says “made with 100% recycled plastic” I automatically know it’ll be brittle and it’ll suck. Sadly, plastic isn’t really recyclable. The bonds break down in the injection machine itself if you leave it a minute too long (heated). Now imagine getting a product that was injected properly, cutting it up, then remelting it, making pellets out of it and then melting those pellets to inject again. Plastic isn’t metal, it doesn’t melt and freeze without loss of strength.