used wads and recycling

Discussion in 'Trapshooting Forum - Americantrapshooter.com' started by guiness, Apr 15, 2024.

  1. guiness

    guiness Member

    They melt down plastic bottles and plastic cups to produce other things why not used shotshell wads
     
  2. bobski

    bobski USN Retired Range Owner

    contamination issues.
     
  3. bpd20

    bpd20 Well-Known Member Founding Member

    Actually, very little of our plastics get recycled. Just read a report yesterday finding that less than 10% of all plastics marked recyclable are actually recycled.
    Most is hauled off to landfills with the rest of the trash. I know where I live we have recycle truck but it is a show only. It goes to the landfills. Just a feel good gesture to fool the folks. I take my aluminum recyclable to a recycle center myself where they pay for it. That way I know it isn't hauled as trash.
     
  4. guiness

    guiness Member

    heck they sure brag about anything made from recycled items
     
  5. ken woodworth

    ken woodworth Well-Known Member

    We had recycling dumpsters at my work next to the garbage dumpster, they dumped one than the other in the same truck. What a surprise that was.
     
  6. fleet90

    fleet90 Member

    While recycling plastic waste, such as bottles and cups, is a common practice, recycling plastic shotshell wads can be more challenging for a few reasons such as contamination, Material composition.