On this episode ofTech Won’t Save Us,Dharna Noor on how industry lobbies invented the recycling myth. Paris Marx Copy Link Facebook X (Twitter) Bluesky Pocket Email Print Show Podcast Information A worker collects soybean oil from recycled plastic bottle in a plastic recycling factory in Dhaka...
Ongoing talk about circular plastic is turning out to be a myth as the plastics industry is actually on track to triple production of new plastic by 2050. Oct 31, 2022 By Mary Riddle While plastic production is increasing globally at alarming rates, plastic recycling is plummeting in the Uni...
ExxonMobil has misled consumers for years by perpetuating a “myth” about plastic recycling, according to a new lawsuit filed by the state of California. ExxonMobil is the world’s leading producer of single-use plastics that become waste, according to the state attorney general’s...
“You know what, this water bottle is recyclable, but I can’t throw it in a recycling bin,” he said. “If it’s filled with water, I need to empty it out.” This calculus will save recycling facilities time, energy and $50 to $100 per ton — ensuring that their resources go t...
Plastic recyclingis hard. In large part that's because, unlike aluminum or glass, plastic is not composed of a single substance but many. "There are thousands of different types of plastics, and they are all different polymers, with different chemical additives and different colorants," Enck ...
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Conventional mechanical recycling, in which plastic waste is ground up and melted, has been around for many decades. Now the plastics industry is touting the benefits of so-called chemical recycling— in which plastic waste is broken down using high heat or more chemicals and turned into a low...
If the plastics industry is following the tobacco industry’s playbook, it may never admit to the failure of plastics recycling. Although we may not be able to stop them from trying to fool us(此处的用词“fool”,以及语气tone,是否合适?我们课上说过,写学术文章时应尽量避免使用带感情色彩的词汇...
Disposal of plastic through recycling, burning or land filling is a myth because it does not undergo bacterial decomposition. And per day by per day this problem become increased.So this research paper is very important because without any restriction of present use of plastic, here given ...
Sharyn Alfonsi: This is discouraging, I think, to most people. Is the idea of recycling a myth? Roland Geyer: I wouldn't call it a myth. Sharyn Alfonsi: But it's not working. Roland Geyer: For plastic, it's currently not working. So we need-- we need to change it. We need ...