Seems like a more efficient way of breaking down plastic waste into microplastics.
Maybe, but it keeps tons of plastic out of landfill etc. Currently it’s all going to end up as microplastics one way or the other, unfortunately. Better we try and extend its lifespan in the mean time.
I mean, we could work on a way to capture and not have it end up as a bunch of micro plastics…
We can, we are, and luckily we can work on both capture and reuse at the same time.
I don’t applaud this as an uplifting environmental story, but maybe an entrepreneurial one. *Many existing brooms are made of plastic anyway so it’s not more detrimental than a current solution.
Either way it smells of a “don’t worry about plastic pollution, this dude will turn it into brooms :)” type jig.
*Edited to clarify many brooms are plastic, before someone jumps on and starts throwing straw brooms at me :)
Most plastic recycling is a one-time thing so it is hard to ever call it recycling. Upcycling is a nice word but it would be even nicer if the stuff were being made into something more permanent than a broom. Once that broom head wears out it’s just trash again, and this time not transformable into anything.
