Saturday, September 18, 2010

techisbest defines P2O "landfill plastic waste"


Landfill Plastic: Much is being made about the stack test report and its failure to mention whether or not landfill plastic waste was used.

But what, exactly, is landfill plastic waste?

My definition is any plastic that would have ended up in a landfill.

That includes all the industrial plastic waste that is generated. That includes all the industrial plastic waste that industry pays to have landfilled. That includes all the industrial plastic waste that, when taken from a single source, is of a homogeneous type without a lot of unknown substances in the waste stream.

That includes all the plastic waste that is low-hanging fruit and will keep JBII, and its affiliates, busy for years and allow them to become wildly successful before needing to address all the other plastic waste currently being tossed into trash cans rather than being recycled.

The other types of landfill waste need to be addressed. I think JBII will be able to do that as well. But it is not an immediate concern.

Industrial plastic waste makes up a huge percentage of the unrecycled plastic waste currently ending up in landfills.

techisbest

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