Recycle / Re-Turn

No idea about the second bit but I'd fully believe it.

I expect it's 100% true though.

This business about shipping it to China or Malaysia as you say is a joke.

I'd much rather a Waste to Energy Incinerator in the harbour that can be controlled and monitored than the piece of mind that comes with landing out shit on some island in the south Pacific so some fella can put a match to it.

Maybe that way there would be incentive to stop it at source

Well theres money in recycling cans but a huge % of plastics just go in landfill or incinerator.

I read there only 9% of global plastics are recycled so if they're filling rivers with plastics in India is there really much point of Mary in Terenure washing the labels off her tin cans?

In fact damage to the environment through chemical recycling plastics in terms of emissions, energy consumption, and water utilization surpasses the impact of landfill or incineration.

Any kind of looking under the bonnet on this subject makes for depressing reading.


As far as I can make out there is negligible if any positive aspect to people putting their plasitc bottles in these machines.
 

This is cool if its true. Some fella in Tipp has a proprietary process registered to break up rubber and plastic into its constituent elements.

He's using it to make Jet fuel and a wax material both of which are fairly valuable commodities

I'd like to see a mass balance to see how true it actually is but if its workable and it could well be depending on oil prices and disposal fees for plastics it'd be brilliant
Goulding Fertilisers down the Marina used have process for using plastic waste and turning in to benches and bins for local councils and golf courses.
Don’t know if they still do it. It was a few years ago,
 
Goulding Fertilisers down the Marina used have process for using plastic waste and turning in to benches and bins for local councils and golf courses.
Don’t know if they still do it. It was a few years ago,
yeah there is a few of those. AFAIK they just shred the plastic and press it to make the "planks"

It's a bit like how a lot of glass just gets mixed in with roads, it's recycled like but the return is tiny compared to production costs of a glass bottle.

The fella making Octane from old tyres would be a have much larger value on the product and be way more scalable.

it all depends in how much energy it takes to superheat the rubber to they can quench off the various products.
 
yeah there is a few of those. AFAIK they just shred the plastic and press it to make the "planks"

It's a bit like how a lot of glass just gets mixed in with roads, it's recycled like but the return is tiny compared to production costs of a glass bottle.

The fella making Octane from old tyres would be a have much larger value on the product and be way more scalable.

it all depends in how much energy it takes to superheat the rubber to they can quench off the various products.
Yip fair play to your knowledge, they were indeed making them into planks.
 
Why would that be a surprise, not everyone is bringing back bottles after paying the charge.
Which is why they brought it in the first place. They knew a large cohort won’t bring them back and they’ll skim off the top.

Why can’t a portion of the surplus money raised go to local charities rather than “operational costs”

A complete scam from day 1.
 
Which is why they brought it in the first place. They knew a large cohort won’t bring them back and they’ll skim off the top.

Why can’t a portion of the surplus money raised go to local charities rather than “operational costs”

A complete scam from day 1.
Skim off the top 🤣
 
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