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Is advanced recycling the answer to plastic waste?

GreenBiz

Waste into materials not just once but continuously: It’s the brass ring of the circular economy. Can it work?

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Taming plastic waste with silica plastic blocks

Inhabitat - Innovation

In a bid to curb plastic waste pollution, India-based company Rhino Machines has invented a way of using plastic to make construction blocks. The silica plastic blocks (SPBs) are strong enough to build a house and can be useful in reducing world pollution problems.

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The U.S. Plastics Pact launches new initiative to redesign the plastics value chain at Circularity 20

GreenBiz

Plastics Pact launches new initiative to redesign the plastics value chain at Circularity 20. recycling system had been a mess for far longer — seeing as the country never fully developed the infrastructure to recycle anywhere near the amount of plastic waste it produces. Plastics Pact. Holly Secon. Indeed, only 8.4

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Most companies are fumbling their 2025 plastic waste targets

GreenBiz

The world is off track to tackle plastic pollution. Here's what business must do now, according to the Ellen MacArthur Foundation.

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Planet vs. plastic: Three steps to solving the global plastics waste crisis

GreenBiz

Here's how innovators at Circularity 22 are dealing with the scourge of plastic waste mismanagement.

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Beating food waste needs plastic — the question is where and when

GreenBiz

Plastic, while bad for the environment, is an important tool in the fight against food waste. How do we balance those pros and cons?

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Using sunlight to recycle black plastics

Envirotec Magazine

Now, a US group has shown that the use of an additive in black plastics can allow sunlight or white LEDs to break down black and colored polystyrene waste into reusable materials. However, finding the right helper that won’t create more waste and is easily incorporated into recycled materials remains a challenge for researchers.

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