You can’t recycle plastic bags at home because they are made from high or low-density polyethylene. They are extremely lightweight and flexible and can get caught up in the recycling equipment and cause damage, which makes plastic bag recycling difficult. The best way to recycle plastic bags ...
Step Two: Gather plastic to recycle If you live in a bottle bill state, then it’s time to start gathering plastic to recycle. Here’s where you can get it: Your own home The most obvious place to look for plastic to recycle is your own home. This is a good starting point. You c...
Since then, that promise has started to come true. Scientists in France have used LCC to develop new enzymes, and by 2025 they plan to recycle 50,000 tons of plastic waste annually, including strong plastics like PET a...
Just because other organizations might not cite waste reduction as their purpose for being in existence doesn’t mean they can’t make it one of their values and strive for zero waste at their gatherings. So, that said, here are a few things I saw that made me smile: The requisite recy...
Less than 10% of plastic trash is recycled -- compared to almost 90% of metals -- because of the massively complicated problem of finding and sorting the different kinds. Frustrated by this waste, Mike Biddle has developed a cheap and incredibly energy e
There’s a lot of potentially useful raw materials bound up in used face masks, grocery bags and food wrap. But it has been much cheaper to keep making more of these single-use plastics than to recover and recycle them. Now, an international research team led by the Department of Energy...
Deep Dive The unfulfilled promises of plastic film recycling The pandemic spurred an uptick in plastic bag use, as already limited retail take back options became more scarce. Stakeholders from all sides think it's time for new ideas.
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Scientists in France have used LCC to develop new enzymes and by 2025 they plan to recycle 50 thousand tonnes of plastic waste annually, including strong plastics like PET, and nylon which is used to make clothes. Beth But there’s still work to do. Fifty thousand tonnes sounds a lot, ...
Plastic Odyssey's co-founder Simon Bernard said countries needed a two-pronged approach towards the plastic peril -- to drastically reduce the amount of waste and recycle what was collected. Young Senegalese entrepreneur Abdoul Bakhy Mbacke said there were hurdles, but also opportunities, in his...