Why can’t we recycle plastic in the same way we do for metal? Melt it and remold it?
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ELI5 for an actual 5 year old:
Like metal, you can melt ice and freeze it in a different shape. Like plastic, you can’t un-fry and re-fry an egg. It’s also difficult to separate the quail egg from the Duck egg after stir-frying them together.
This is not an exact comparison, but I guess it will do for a 5 year old. Plastic is really quite complex on a molecular level. Metals are simple.
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