Recycling plastic is still less cost than manufacturing virgin material. The sorting is effort, but the repelletinzing is not highly complex. As with anything for sale, for a company to stay in business their product has to cover costs and make profit. Recycled plastic is cheaper than new, sometimes not by a huge %/but enough that when oil prices rise the plastic part manufacturers reach out and order a lot more recycled material.
The plastic that is not easily converted back into consumer materials, is repelletized into fuel pellets. These are used in heating and incinerator systems in place of oil, coal and gas fuels.
Its still just hydrocarbons at the end.
Recycling plastic is still less cost than manufacturing virgin material.
No it doesnt.
virgin plastic is cheaper.
The only thing that makes recycled plastic remotely viable is state and federal subsidies/incentives/etc… and even those don’t make recycled plastic cheaper. just marginally more affordable.
Recycling plastic is still less cost than manufacturing virgin material. The sorting is effort, but the repelletinzing is not highly complex. As with anything for sale, for a company to stay in business their product has to cover costs and make profit. Recycled plastic is cheaper than new, sometimes not by a huge %/but enough that when oil prices rise the plastic part manufacturers reach out and order a lot more recycled material.
The plastic that is not easily converted back into consumer materials, is repelletized into fuel pellets. These are used in heating and incinerator systems in place of oil, coal and gas fuels. Its still just hydrocarbons at the end.
No it doesnt.
virgin plastic is cheaper.
The only thing that makes recycled plastic remotely viable is state and federal subsidies/incentives/etc… and even those don’t make recycled plastic cheaper. just marginally more affordable.