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[โ€“] CameronDev@programming.dev 56 points 1 week ago (9 children)

Well, the choice of casket should be obvious.

[โ€“] albert180@discuss.tchncs.de 30 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It's also the Natural end of every Tetra-Pak since you can't recycle that shit

[โ€“] qyron@sopuli.xyz 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Incorrect.

Brazil developed a tecnique, using shredding and heat, to delaminate the aluminium from the paper.

[โ€“] CameronDev@programming.dev 17 points 1 week ago (2 children)

They are technically recyclable, but in reality, most of them go straight to landfill where they dont break down.

In Aus, we have the capability to recycle them, but even the ones that are "recycled" end up stored in warehouses until they catch fire, or shipped to China and incinerated there.

Actual recycling is so limited in capacity that production of the waste way outstrips the recycling.

:(

[โ€“] GenosseFlosse@feddit.org 3 points 1 week ago

The problem is that it is much cheaper to buy new raw materials, than to recycle household waste.

[โ€“] qyron@sopuli.xyz 0 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Tetrapak packages are highly sought after in my country because they are close to guaranteed money for recyclers. The one metric ton bail was worth close to 2000โ‚ฌ in 2016; can't imagine the price today. There companies with specialized hovens that use the paper to fuse out the aluminum.

And how do they get rid of the Plastic glued to the Aluminium?

In Germany they go mostly to the burning because Recycling isn't financially viable.

Why would they pay such high prices in your country?

https://www.t-online.de/heim-garten/haushaltstipps/id_73750112/zdf-enthuellt-die-grosse-recycling-luege-von-tetra-pak-und-co-.html

Do you have a source for that number?

Raw aluminum was 1600USD per ton in 2016. (EUR was about 85-90%, so similar value).

Unless it was being subsidised by the government, that doesn't make any economic sense?

https://www.statista.com/statistics/675845/average-prices-aluminum-worldwide/

[โ€“] trollercoaster@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Why exactly are they guaranteed money? I'm willing to take bets that it's due to their high energy content when burned. Same applies to plastic waste, by the way. That stuff is loved by incinerator operators, because it burns so well it can be used to add energy to burn waste that otherwise wouldn't burn well at all.

[โ€“] federalreverse@feddit.org 2 points 1 week ago

Might also be a drinks-carton-specific government scheme. You never know though when people just write "my country."

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