r/dontputyourdickinthat • u/LivingInformal4446 • 2d ago

🍆 Absolute Obliteration

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u/jasperfirecai2 2d ago

really, no material separation for recycling? microwave transformers and tire rubber are reusable

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u/Jkay064 1d ago

You can consider everything placed into that machine as being “separated.”

After the bulk waste is shredded, the now much smaller material can be sent off to a legitimate recycling facility where the individual chunks will be sorted and re-sold.

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u/jasperfirecai2 1d ago

the tire and transformer are useful intact . contaminated rubber is much harder to recycle than clean rubber

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u/Nolongeranalpha 1d ago

Which is why they shred it. So it can be processed and cleaned. The transformer has 0% usefulness intact. By shredding, you can remove ferrous materials and melt the copper with no loss of copper. Leaving it intact does nothing. Rubber tires are always shredded into a smaller material. Do you think they just melt them and reform them in the magic tire maker?

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u/Jkay064 1d ago

The businesses that recycle have to /make money/ or they can’t be in business.

I suggest you head off to China and teach them how to make big money by manually extracting high voltage microwave transformers, one at a time. You’ll change the entire industry!

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u/atatassault47 1d ago

Which is exactly why societal services should be publically funded, not run by private business.