I have been putting old Brillo pads in recycling for years
Then I read you shouldn’t……. Also some plastics and paper gets diverted to landfills or burning , it’s getting to the point it’s easier to just throw everything away.
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ArishMell · 70-79, M
I doubt their material is very salvageable. It is very fine steel wire so I would be surprised if very much of the metal is recovered at all.
If buried landfill they will rust harmlessly away, back to iron-oxide (as was the original iron ore), although of course adding to the attrition of the metal as a re-useable resource.
Not all plastics are recoverable. The thermoplastics are, to a point, but not the thermosetting ones, though it may be possible to grind some of them to a fairly inert granules as a filler for other composite materials.
If buried landfill they will rust harmlessly away, back to iron-oxide (as was the original iron ore), although of course adding to the attrition of the metal as a re-useable resource.
Not all plastics are recoverable. The thermoplastics are, to a point, but not the thermosetting ones, though it may be possible to grind some of them to a fairly inert granules as a filler for other composite materials.