[zakary]

Recycled plastic is less strong than new “virgin” plastic. That’s why manufacturers typically only use 10%-30%, much more than that and it’s hard to keep good tolerances on dimensions and strength metrics. Also the vast majority of recycled plastic isn’t from recycling consumer plastic waste, but from recycling the off cuts of plastic manufacturing. Almost all the consumer plastic waste is just put into landfill. It’s almost never economical to sort and recycle that stuff.

[thetoon]

> Almost all the consumer plastic waste is just put into landfill.

Aren't they primarilly incinerated? (which, unless you carefully capture exhaust, isn't much better)

[thfuran]

There are some countries that incinerate most waste and some that incinerate just about nothing. Some of the latter export to some of the former, but most don't.