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onethatcares

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5. great idea

Reply to myohmy2 (Reply #4)

Fri Nov 26, 2021, 08:47 AM

Nov 2021

but recycling plastic is so expensive that its cheaper to make new.

At least that's what the plastic making companies have been telling us for years.

See "The many uses of petroleum and plastics" at the google nearest you.

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