Peak Oil is fake
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Just about everything you can do with plastic is a net loss though. Besides dumping it in a landfill, which does nothing.
Oil companies do do it though, a little bit
Producing plastic in the first place isnt a loss at all. It's made out of byproducts of oil and natural gas manufacturing. There's very little energy used specifically in its synthesis.
Recycling it in *any way* is a net loss. Traditional recycling uses a shit ton of energy to melt plastic and reform it into new plastic, which will always eventually be thrown away or lost anyways. In traditional dumps and landfills they just end up polluting the environment anyways. Ditto for dumping it in the ocean. Incineration produces microplastics all through the atmosphere. Using microbial degradation *still puts* microplastics in the ground, as in a regular landfill. Sending it into space, as some propose, is about the most inefficient idea humanly possible.
I see pyrolysis as the only decent way to get rid of it. Because everything else is just as inefficient and produces more waste.
No, it won't get turned into perfect crude. Or perfect gas. Or perfect diesel. But it's still very much usable fuel for any engine that can handle it, and it gets put out into the atmosphere as co2. And even if co2 were harmful, it's going to go into the atmosphere anyways so who gives a fuck? It produces no microplastics. It produces no pollution in the process of production (besides the fuel source), the solid byproducts are biodegradable and the char produced is even usable as an inferior form of coal.