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Originally Posted by abaya
I don't know how it works in the States--but the ironic thing is in Iceland, they SHIP the recyclables to SWEDEN for processing. Yes, they don't have the means to actually recycle things here--so they put it on a ship and send it to another country, and they actually buy it from us (because it's become a valuable commodity, in some strange way). But you can imagine the inefficiency and irony in the whole thing... very weird.
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I can see shipping aluminum and other metals. Mining and processing ore isn't easy or energy-friendly. Rubber from tires can be shredded and made into other products pretty easily.
Glass takes a lot of energy, but it is heavy. And plastics are tough to deal with. I wonder if they make plastic wood out of shredded plastic and epoxy.