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Recycle + Oil = Product...?

Unread postby Last_Laff » Sun 15 Oct 2006, 23:56:57

I have a question regarding recycling..

Since we recycle materials, especially plastics. Does oil still need to be added to the recycled material to manufacture the products?

I've searched this site for the answer what I was looking for but I could'nt find it.

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Re: Recycle + Oil = Product...?

Unread postby Last_Laff » Fri 01 Dec 2006, 11:53:01

NO one seem want to answer this question? Or the answer is under the pile of recycled information that I haven't looked hard enough?
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Re: Recycle + Oil = Product...?

Unread postby Dreamtwister » Fri 01 Dec 2006, 12:25:19

Well, off the top of my head, you need natural gas to run the furnaces that melt down and the plastic as part of the recycling process.
The whole of human history is a refutation by experiment of the concept of "moral world order". - Friedrich Nietzsche
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Re: Recycle + Oil = Product...?

Unread postby morph » Fri 01 Dec 2006, 12:28:41

plus every time you recycle it you lose some of the strength of the plastic degrading it.
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