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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What makes it hard to recycle efficiently is what makes plastics very useful in the first place. It is cheap to produce, inert, strong (easy to make containers), durable.
To recycle plastics, economically, it has to be done at a low cost, degrade something inert (heat, chemicals, mechanical processing) and containers are volumetrically inefficient for transportation (end up delivering mostly air, unless they are pre-crushed properly).
Basically you’re going against the very reasons they were useful in the first place.
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