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Join the members of the channel and you can even take part in making a video! ???? / ten list Are you sure that recycling is such a good thing? At idle, it may seem that this is the best way to deal with mountains of plastic garbage, and this is what companies have been suggesting for decades. But what do you do when I tell you that plastic recycling is just a huge business and not nearly invented by good souls. Not to mention the fact that companies knowingly cheat you in the process. Try Rackhost now with a HUF 3,000 discount, but hurry, because the offer is only available to the first 100 registrants! https://www.rackhost.hu/referral/coup... We are also up on Instagram: / tizeslista Tizelista Facebook: / tizeslista 0:00 Intro 0:32 Tízes Lista membership 0:50 The history of plastic Before jumping headfirst into recycling scam, let's talk a little about the history of plastic so that everyone is in the picture. Today, we can hardly imagine our lives without plastic. From bottled water and soft drinks to food boxes and car parts, this material appears in many places, and for good reason: it is cheap, durable and easy to produce. 3:24 What's wrong with plastic? But what's wrong with plastic anyway? One of the biggest problems is the decomposition time of plastic waste. Since the bonds of plastic do not match the chemical bonds found in nature, it is much more difficult to decompose. The decomposition time depends on the material and its structure, but it can take from 20 to 1000 years. PET bottles, for example, can completely decompose in about 450 years. Because of this, an amount of plastic waste has accumulated over the decades that the Earth simply cannot cope with. 5:50 Recycling Scam But how can it be such a big problem, when people now selectively collect plastic waste in most cities and recycled plastics appear en masse on store shelves. Well, I have some bad news. Also, the whole recycling thing is just marketing, and we're not really ahead of it. 9:47 The business of recycling In the 1980s, the plastics industry invested a lot of money in research into how efficiently plastic products could be recycled. The result was quite disappointing. They realized that plastic is not so easy to recycle, moreover, only the first two of the 7 main types of plastic, PET and HDPE, can be effectively recycled. Sources: https://pastebin.com/bi83w1W5 Intro music: https://motionarray.com/royalty-free-... Music under the video: https://audiojungle.net/item/stylish-... Outro music: Cold Funk - Funkorama by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/...) Text: Zoltán Eszter #újrautilizás #átverés #tízeslista