Important thread explaining very important research & reporting on plastics & recycling (rather, the lack of recycling). We need more circular design thinking sooner, & more regulation to require firms to reduce/eliminate plastic production.
1/ Last year, I became obsessed with a plastic cup. The cup was made via pyrolysis — a kind of chemical recycling I'd heard a lot about.
The plastics industry made pyrolysis sound magical. It was a way to turn hard-to-recycle plastics into new plastic. So I tried to buy the cup…
