Don_Dickle@lemmy.world to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish · 4 months agoTIL Only about 9% of plastic ever produced has been recycled.en.wikipedia.orgexternal-linkmessage-square177fedilinkarrow-up11.02Karrow-down110
arrow-up11.01Karrow-down1external-linkTIL Only about 9% of plastic ever produced has been recycled.en.wikipedia.orgDon_Dickle@lemmy.world to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish · 4 months agomessage-square177fedilink
minus-squareRhaedas@fedia.iolinkfedilinkarrow-up36·4 months ago9% is only recycled once, only 1% has been truly reused multiple times, so you’re close enough. Also: Of the remaining waste, 12% was incinerated and 79% was either sent to landfills or lost to the environment as pollution. They’re the same thing. Incinerated is lost as pollution, it just happened to have one more use on the way there. And I just realized, this wikipedia page linked is almost 10 years out of date!
minus-squaremkwt@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up13·4 months agoIncinerated plastic releases green house gases and some amount of micro plastics in the uncombusted ash. Landfill plastic seemingly just erodes into micro plastics over long time scales.
minus-squarecanlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·edit-24 months ago And I just realized, this wikipedia page linked is almost 10 years out of date! You know what must be done.
9% is only recycled once, only 1% has been truly reused multiple times, so you’re close enough.
Also:
They’re the same thing. Incinerated is lost as pollution, it just happened to have one more use on the way there.
And I just realized, this wikipedia page linked is almost 10 years out of date!
Incinerated plastic releases green house gases and some amount of micro plastics in the uncombusted ash.
Landfill plastic seemingly just erodes into micro plastics over long time scales.
You know what must be done.