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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As an aside, surgical masks are made of a cloth-like polypropylene. That’s just plastic that’s been extruded into very thin light fibers. The best way to get rid of this from the environment is to incinerate them. While combusting plastics seem like a toxic emanation of chemicals, it’s actually cleaner than burying them into the ground. They basically burn to nothing and won’t leave anything behind.
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