• hemmes@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    Raw materials is not what we’re talking about here. Local recycling plants are not processing raw materials - that’s a completely different process. They are very limited systems designed to process consumer materials.

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      1 day ago

      We’re talking about whether recycling is feasible.

      Whether or not it is feasible is decided by how hard it is to do compared to just making new materials.

      Your comment seemed to be saying the contaminates in recycling make them harder to recycle back to their raw materials (compared to making new raw materials).