I know glass and aluminum can be recycled pretty efficiently, but if plastics have lower melting temperatures I would assume they’d denature less therefore offering better methods of recycling.
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why? well because unlike aluminum it’s cheaper to make new plastic than to recycle it.
Unlike glass old plastic isn’t needed to make new plastic. Modern float glass requies ground old glass in its manufacture and aside from that ground glass in itself is a useful commodety.
There’s economic utility in recycling glass and aluminum none in plastic.
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