I’ve always had this thing about recycling. Recycling, as we know it, is downcycling because with each round of “re”cycling, the materials become more and more mixed. This makes them less and less like the original materials we used to have for manufacturing. While recycling can extend the life of a given material for a few rounds, it doesn’t make the material truly recycled. Metals are mixed and eventually discarded, plastics have the same fate, and so does paper as it is mixed with chemical ink making it more and brown until it can no longer be used.
For a video on how we could truly recycle plastics watch the following TED talk.
