recycling Plastic doesn’t work and it never will.
The concept of plastic recycling has been around for a long time, we all have become accustomed to its comforting presence. Letting consumers feel more at ease with buying plastic products again and again, believing there was this perfect recycling system that transforms used plastic into new plastic that was infinitely repeatable. Well like a 7 year old with a tooth under their pillow, we are starting to realise cracks in this magical system of lies.
The latest article by The Atlantic, summarizes some of the serious flaws in the ‘recycling’ system we have all become accustomed to. It is well worth a read.
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/05/single-use-plastic-chemical-recycling-disposal/661141/
This is one of the many reasons why we developed Granulous! We knew we needed to find another solution for plastic product that doesn’t blindly rely on different forms industrial processing. Our Granulous material has been developed specifically to fully biodegrade in ambient temperatures. It does not need to be recycled! wherever it ends up it will alway break down into carbon dioxide and water. It cannot and never will harm the environment.
Recycling is the problem, Composting is the solution.