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by throwaway0a5e 2012 days ago
Plastic of unknown provenance is worth nearly nothing.

Clean pure plastic chips that just got cut off of a block of new plastic can be made back into pellets and used for new stuff and is worth a little less than plastic pellets.

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I could see this working at scale, but nobody is going to trust a hobbiest or small shop that they haven't contaminated the bin.