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I'm not sure what you mean about "explosion-inducing". The fuel that is produced is explosive if the combustion gets out of control. Typically though, pyrolysis is a metal cylinder inside a metal cylinder, with a tube coming out of the central one.
As for operational costs of recycling or pyrolysis, training and education are a form of labor, overhead is just labor, materials are a proxy for labor, transport is a direct function of labor. It's largely a question of how efficiently you can use your time to collect the plastic.
Before the question of pyrolysis comes in, there's an opportunity for cottage industry plastic recycling.
Decentralized appropriate technology is a way to diminish structural power imbalance, reduce dependence on the imperial economy, have a more direct connection to the means of production, prepare for disasters ~~or PPW~~, and demonstrate that a sustainable lifestyle is viable for everyone on the planet. It's good, folks.
This is a relevant inspiration to start with.
I need to stop mixing in things I heard on the phone with stuff I read, but I meant like metal crap or things with pockets of air or other stuff idk when I meant explosion inducing
Cool site will check it out.
Yeah I had been thinking of that article to link in the other thread but I only posted the coppicing one
I think there are processes of de-oxygenating the compartment. A bigger concern is that thin deposited metal films like in some wrappers, or plastic on paper like in Tetra-Paks. Stuff like that is prohibitively hard to recycle, and might just need to get crushed and stored underground, idk.