Not all plastic is the same. Old yogurt cups and milk jugs, for example, don’t play well together when being turned into new materials. However, there are solutions.
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A proposed chemical recycling plant in western Michigan may provide a handful of jobs but little environmental benefit.
Polyurethane foams are the world’s sixth-most-produced plastic yet among the least recycled materials.
We expect chemical recycling to complement its mechanical counterpart, especially for difficult to recycle materials.
Even recycled plastics still end up in landfill with our current system.
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