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So are we disappointed it’s not the perfect solution, so we don’t bother?

Sounds like we’re on the right track and someone can find a way to make money with this, or decide to dedicate their resources to it for society’s benefit.

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We don’t bother because those few kinds of plastics aren’t the ones that are causing most of the polution

If something costs millions and only works in a limited space, at specific conditions, and recycles 0.2% of all plastics, why would anyone want to invest in it?

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Because 0.2% of all plastics is still a lot of plastic.

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Okay, so go out and pay millions of dollars yourself and do it. If you can’t, why do you expect anyone else to do that, with no hope of return, no hope of sustainability and such?

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It isn’t absolute bullshit, it’s in the interest of a country. We have private scrapyards, recyclers and landfills that do that over here and they keep on going. It’s simply because this specific idea is so out of place, so hard to implement and just has “techbro” written all over it. It’s impractical and useless, yet it sounds cool to people who don’t know a thing about recycling.

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We already have the perfect solution. Stop producing plastic. But we sure as hell are not bothering with that either.

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Its no exaggeration to say plastic is essential to modern society

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I’m not sure why you are projecting disappointment on others. Best of luck mate

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