Good news for people who worry about plastic use

[dreamshark]

 Wow, great article in the Strib about plastic film recycling in Minnesota! Here's the link, which you may or may not be able to follow if you are not a subscriber. 

tldr; Those plastic bags that you drop off at grocery stores really DO get recycled in Minnesota, mostly ending up at Trex, a company that manufactures decking material. But this is actually downcycling (one-time reuse) rather than true recycling which is an endless loop of reuse. It's a pretty durable form of downcycling, but eventually even composite decking gets scrapped. HOWEVER... a plastic film recycling plant will be opening this summer in Rogers, MN, that will be part of a true recycling chain, ending up at a facility in Wisconsin that produces new food-grade plastic film!  

Comments

[quadong]

I can read articles on my phone at the New York Times by letting the article load, and then quickly turning off the WiFi before it can send the signal to hide the article from me and demand a subscription. So silly. (Especially because I do subscribe to the NYTimes, but I am too lazy to find my password and type it into my phone...)

[pameladean]

That's hilarious; I'll have to try it.

I had a NYT subscription for a while and I developed the most ridiculous reluctance to just sign in and get on with it. I resented the necessity. One problem was that my phone and their website didn't always see eye to eye about whether I was allowed to paste my username and password in from the password manager. Sometimes it was fine, sometimes it wasn't.

P.