China's new policy, however, hasn't done much to change the fate of U.S. plastic, Hocevar said. Many of the bales of plastic that got shipped to China were contaminated with non-recyclable trash, he said. Those unusable bales got thrown inlandfillsor into the ocean. The problem hasn'...
How Much Plastic Actually Gets Recycled? An estimated 8.3 billion metric tons of virgin plastics have been produced, a sum that seems both impressive and almost unimaginable when you take into account that plastics have only been produced for a little more than 70 years. Plastics did not enterm...
Glass bottles wait to be recycled outside a restaurant in Stockholm, Sweden. Ian W. Iott/Getty Images As far as having an environmentally friendly reputation, you couldn't do much better than Sweden. After all, it's the country that brought us plogging, the fitness craze in which runners...
Glass bottles wait to be recycled outside a restaurant in Stockholm, Sweden. Ian W. Iott/Getty Images As far as having an environmentally friendly reputation, you couldn't do much better than Sweden. After all, it's the country that brought us plogging, the fitness craze in which runners...
Glass bottles wait to be recycled outside a restaurant in Stockholm, Sweden. Ian W. Iott/Getty Images As far as having an environmentally friendly reputation, you couldn't do much better than Sweden. After all, it's the country that brought us plogging, the fitness craze in which runners...
Recycling in the U.S. is broken. In 1960, Americans generated 2.68 pounds of garbage per day; by 2017, it had grown to an average of4.51 pounds. And while many Americans dutifully put items into their recycling bins, much of it does not actually end up being recycled. This post will ...
When manufacturing PE film back into a PE product, labels made with paper and other non-PE materials can create too much contamination, making the extruded recycled film ugly or unusable. Because of this, and the long-term desire for more PE to be manufactured back into PE, efforts are ...
recycled plastics into bricks that can be assembled into houses. Recycled plastic’s tough, heavy, rugged qualities also make good toys. Unfortunately, much of the demand for plastic is because it is lightweight and flexible. Recycled plastic lacks these qualities, and plastic gets harder and ...
You actually love tipping! You like to feel that you have a voice in how much money your server makes. 出自-2016年12月阅读原文 Werbach gives the example of several Disneyland hotels in Anaheim, California, which used large digital leaderboards to display how efficiently laundry workers were wor...
Typically, types 1 (PET) and 2 (HDPE) plastics can be recycled this way. Other kinds of plastics, including Styrofoam, may be accepted as drop-offs by recycling services in some areas. (Fun fact: Scientists have actually figured out a way to makesomething edible from recycled plasticbottles...