Somewhere between panels 2 and 3. They break the containers down into raw materials (although not quite to the molecular level), clean them to make sure that residue from the previous contents don’t affect the following contents (although more thorough than a spit-polish), and then deliver the materials to the manufacturers, where they’re made into new containers.
Honestly, 90% of it gets dumped into landfills.
The 10% that actually does get recycled is mostly aluminum and steel. Some glass gets melted down and reused, but it’s generally cheaper to make new glass. (Except for bottles that get washed and reused, but there aren’t all that many of those any more.) Plastic gets shredded, washed in acid, and melted into something else (at great expense). Cardboard gets pulped into newsprint and other cheap paper products. Newsprint and cheap paper get shredded and turned into insulation.
Pica is a) 1/6 of an inch, a unit used in typography or b) an eating disorder where the patient eats things which are not food. It’s also many other things, but I think these two were referred, either in the comment or the comic.
Somewhere between panels 2 and 3. They break the containers down into raw materials (although not quite to the molecular level), clean them to make sure that residue from the previous contents don’t affect the following contents (although more thorough than a spit-polish), and then deliver the materials to the manufacturers, where they’re made into new containers.
Yeah. It would be very exhausting having to clean each single molecule.Even if it’s only spit-polishing.
Just had to google pica…
… shouldn’t have done that >_<
Honestly, 90% of it gets dumped into landfills.
The 10% that actually does get recycled is mostly aluminum and steel. Some glass gets melted down and reused, but it’s generally cheaper to make new glass. (Except for bottles that get washed and reused, but there aren’t all that many of those any more.) Plastic gets shredded, washed in acid, and melted into something else (at great expense). Cardboard gets pulped into newsprint and other cheap paper products. Newsprint and cheap paper get shredded and turned into insulation.
And insulation gets turned into fuel for the inevitable house fire!
What’s font got to do with it?
I’m sorry, I feel like there’s a really clever joke (or at least a horrible pun) you’ve got there, but I don’t see any mentions of font in the comic.
Pica is a) 1/6 of an inch, a unit used in typography or b) an eating disorder where the patient eats things which are not food. It’s also many other things, but I think these two were referred, either in the comment or the comic.
I must say, that’s an impressive monster!