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by arvinsim 2021 days ago
Recycling was a lie to sell more plastic, recycling industry veteran says

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24714880

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Yeah the plastic isn't recyclable, but e-waste is full of precious metals and structural metals like aluminum that can easily be recycled.
To be fair, I wouldn't be surprised if there's less things if value in an airpod than it's worth. At the point where recycling in and of itself might be more polluting than mining the 0.02g of precious metals and the gram or two of other metals. The structure in airpods is mostly plastic and glue.