Why recycle things that you can make them cheaper, with less resources and in higher quality from scratch?

(The above is not so much about processors, but about plastics. As long as we are still burning any fossil fuels at all, we are probably better off holding off on recycling and instead burning the plastic for electricity to use ever so slightly less new fossil fuels for power, and instead use the virgin fossil fuels to make new plastics.

Especially considering the extra logistics and quality degradation that recycling entails.

Directly re-using plastic bottles a few times might still be worth it, though.)

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pbhjpbhj 2 hours ago | parent [-]

Is that a genuine question, or are you parodying an ignorant point of view?

The World has limited resources, we don't have a spare.

Do you need it spelling out more clearly?

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eru 2 hours ago | parent [-]

We are sitting on 5,970,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 kg ball of matter. We have a giant nuclear furnace in the centre of the solar system that's providing us with energy.

	▲	slow_typist 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Some resources are still scarce. And a lot of those 6E24 kg is iron and nickel we can never get to. Another big fraction is basically molten stone. And we really should stop putting more carbon into the atmosphere. Also, if you go for measures like mass processed, the weight of microchips, pcbs, parts is only a tiny fraction of what has to be processed and build in the supply chain. Agreed that it is smarter to use oil for plastics then to burn it directly.