Do you want to know the truth behind recycling plastics?
Plastic makers view recycling as a Ram Baan, claiming that it will cure all issues, however after all these years we have only managed to recycle 9 percent of the plastic generated annually. While recycling rates may have grown over time, this improvement pales in contrast to the rate of global plastic output growth.
But here is the truth about Recycling plastics.
Unlike glass, aluminum, steel, etc., which when recycled retain their strength and are equivalent to the virgin substance, plastics' strength after recycling reduces drastically and after every cycle, its properties might reduce by 5-15% compared to virgin Polymer.
Consequently, this recycled resin gets down-cycled the bulk of the time.
You may question, what is down-cycling? It is the use of recycled resin in a product that has a far lesser value than what it was originally used for. For example, after recycling, HDPE resin that was once used to create containers is then down-cycled into garden pots or plastic tiles or those PET bottles, which, after being recycle
d once or twice, are down-cycled into fibers for pillows which when discarded, are nearly impossible to recycle again.
Thus, recycling is not the way ahead; it is only a Trump card played by plastic corporations to continue creating plastics while placing the duty of cleaning up their mess on the government and the general public.
Plastics are designed to endure forever, yet we use them and discard them, which has become the leading cause of pollution.
Shunyam aims to break this extremely contagious use-and-throw mentality by employing packaging that can be reused (our glass jar) or composted (shredded paper used as a cushion). Join us in our quest to escape the grip of plastic pollution. Go #plasticfree #goshunyam