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#754 - FFAF: Why Recycling is a Scam

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The Cost of Recycled Plastic

Recycled plastic costs an extra $72 a ton compared with newly made plastic. Plastic companies will put resin identifiers on their products that have a number inside of it and the recycling arrows. It turns out, so it's really hard to recycle plastic. You've got like seven different types of identifying resin numbers to separate these plastics.

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