The EV cult is straight up delusional, at this point.
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Serious question: What part of a milk jug can't be recycled?
I don't recycle them anyway, I'm honestly curious.
This is going to blow your mind, but plastics actually really suck at being recycled. You know all those endless bottles and plastic containers you throw in the recycling bin? You know where they end up?
In the ground, as landfill. Because that's all it's good for.
Plastic degrades and has to be hyper-sorted before recycling and it costs about 5x as much to recycle plastic as it does to make new plastic.
tl;dr, recycling is a scam and is just a fancier way of saying 'landfill'.
Metal recycling is not a scam. Plastic is.
Easy way to tell: In the suburbs, if you put out a big pile of plastic on your front lawn, it'll be there a million years from now. If you put out a big pile of metal on your front lawn, it'll be gone in an hour or two by scrappers who make good money recycling metal.
If recycling plastics was anywhere near profitable, they'd be gone in moments, too. The only plastics you're getting rid of are plastic shielding on big metal things.