Re: [GreenYes] recycled plastic bycicles

[Helen Spiegelman <hspie@home.com>]

Has anyone looked into the environmental impact of recycling plated metal
- does the plating create pollution that must be trapped when the metal
is melted?

At 05:22 PM 10/26/2001 -0400, RicAnthony@aol.com wrote:
> In a message
> dated 10/26/2001 12:08:32 PM Pacific Daylight Time, gottlich@infi.net
> writes:
> > We should start
> > using the term "reuse" in place of the misnomer
> > "recycle," because the bicycle fender, just as the rest of it,
> > is not recycled
>
>
> Maybe I missed the point here.  We were talking about lifecycle
> costs. The bicycle fender made of metal can after use, reuse, repair, can
> be taken to a smelter and made into a fender or whatever.  Where do
> you take a plastic fender to be repaired, and eventually reground and
> recycled into a plastic product again?   
>
> I know it is possible, but the petrochemical industry has not taken
> responsibility for their products and there is very little infrastructure
> to recycle plastic.    
>
> Thus as opposed to metal, plastic is ultimately burned or buried and the
> capital and labor that was used to make it is wasted while its
> transformation / decomposition byproduct is a pollutant to the planet.
>
>
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