• Maalus@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    Not really. Plastic gets damaged when heating it up to melting temps. You won’t get a product that has the same properties, unlike with aluminium for instance. You can maybe get away with adding a small percentage of recycled pellets back in, but that’s it.

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      1 day ago

      Metals are also not 100% recyclable due to contamination. We just have plenty of use for low grade metal alloys.

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        23 hours ago

        Which literally means “anything other than aerospace engineering”. Aluminium and other metals are infinitely more recyclable than plastics, which as I’ve said before, degrade immediately to being barely usable.