Over here they had the habit (in GDR times) to radically keep reforesting the woods once they cut anything down, so they could cut trees down again in 30 years (I think they also did research and picked tree sorts which grow big relatively quickly and are modest in cultivation). And, I guess, this also came after cutting down way too much after the war, after finding the woods empty and gone and no wood available as material to do anything with. So to say, after flat on one's face...
Don't know if any other countries practiced such a model to regrow one's resources, but that could be a model in order to prevent oneself from ecological disaster in this point. (e. g. preventing the spreading of deserts, preventing killing living space of animals, keeping materia alive that produces oxygen to breathe, preventing material to use for human economy from running out)
Plastic, as far as I remember the process of generating it in the first place, is way harder to reuse than metal. Metal - you melt it in a big pot again, do the mixture you want to have and pour it into a new form. Plastic - you need to create a new chain made of monomers via chemical reaction. The latter requiring differing outside circumstances to enforce this process...
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Date: 18 February 2019 11:11 pm (UTC)And, I guess, this also came after cutting down way too much after the war, after finding the woods empty and gone and no wood available as material to do anything with. So to say, after flat on one's face...
Don't know if any other countries practiced such a model to regrow one's resources, but that could be a model in order to prevent oneself from ecological disaster in this point. (e. g. preventing the spreading of deserts, preventing killing living space of animals, keeping materia alive that produces oxygen to breathe, preventing material to use for human economy from running out)
Plastic, as far as I remember the process of generating it in the first place, is way harder to reuse than metal. Metal - you melt it in a big pot again, do the mixture you want to have and pour it into a new form. Plastic - you need to create a new chain made of monomers via chemical reaction. The latter requiring differing outside circumstances to enforce this process...