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[–] 5 points 1 year ago (1 child)

By what metric? Recycling gives a new use to discarded materials, so the material might be 100% not-discarded, but new energy is still consumed in the recycling process. This is why reducing and re-using are more powerful levers than recycling.

There is also the detail of whether a material is truly "re" cycled back to the original use, or is "down" cycled to a use with less rigorous technical requirements.

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