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Properly sort and recycle plastic waste collected from households.And they lived happily ever after.……Or so it seems, that is ...

The recycling industry is under increasing pressure because of legislation and ambitious recycling targets. Although ...

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Nearly all black plastics get sent to the landfill or get incinerated because their pigment makes them difficult to sort in plastics recycling plants. As a result, the recycling industry pays little ...

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Plastics are inescapable in our daily lives. The vast amounts of plastic garbage heaped in landfills and in the environment, however, are as problematic as the plastics are useful. A research team has ...

When newly manufactured, or virgin, plastic becomes cheap, companies can have little financial reason to buy recycled material instead. Recyclers have to pay to collect, sort and process discarded ...

The first time I stepped inside a recycling facility, I was overwhelmed. Even with earplugs, the noise was relentless — the hum of machinery, the clatter of cans, the whir of conveyor belts. But what ...