Originally Posted by
rekmeyata
Plastic water bottles are recyclable. So are bicycle tires and tubes, they grind those up and put them into asphalt.
That's not recycling, that's downcycling.
Plastic water bottles are still wasteful as they are being used for something that isn't necessary when you drink tap water. Lots of fossil fuel used to make plastics and many of these end up in the ocean, not recycled or even downcycled.