[HN Gopher] Soft plastic being collected but almost all burned i...
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       Soft plastic being collected but almost all burned in kilns or
       recycled abroad
        
       Author : eoinof
       Score  : 11 points
       Date   : 2022-12-29 21:56 UTC (1 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (www.thejournal.ie)
 (TXT) w3m dump (www.thejournal.ie)
        
       | ZeroGravitas wrote:
       | Good overview article, with specifics for the local market.
       | 
       | One nit-pick:
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       | > Worst case scenario, which happens the majority of the time in
       | Ireland right now, it will be recovered - which means that it
       | will replace fuel in energy plants, or in one of Ireland's four
       | cement kilns.
       | 
       | The use of "worst case scenario" here means "at the very worst
       | the current system will do X with it" but could be read as "the
       | worst possible thing is done", which isn't the case, the worst
       | case scenario is still pretty good (at least until all fossil
       | fuels are eliminated from those processes).
        
       | eoinof wrote:
       | I'm fairly skeptical of recycling but this had a lot of
       | interesting details, for how recycling works in Ireland(& EU)
        
       | nuc1e0n wrote:
       | The Japanese only separate their rubbish into 'burnable' or 'non
       | burnable' items. I think that's a more honest approach.
        
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