On Sun, 2005-08-21 at 23:09 +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > From: George Pinto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Is plastic being recycled in Goa even on a small scale? i.e. someone > collects the plastic for a > fee and then turns around and sells it in bulk to the plastic > manufacturers for reuse. I know > newspapers used to be sold to a recycler by the kilo and then resold > to paper manufacturers. > Perhaps it is still being done. It seemed everyone benefitted. Not that I know. When Goa Foundation had its plastic collection drive, frantic efforts were made to get somebody to recycle it, but no luck. They are very choosy, so you have to separate out the varieties of plastic, like the recycler will take only PET bottles. A lot of plastic (most) is unrecyclable, like the plastic carry-bags. All plastic recycling involves downcycling, i.e., the product gets further degraded, and can you imagine a more degraded product than carry-bags :-) This is apart from the environmental damage caused by recycling, which is inevitable with plastic. No, the only thing to do is to legislate it out of existence, or rather, make it rare as it was when we were kids. -- Question everything - Karl Marx