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Thus, a fully commingled HH waste stream intended for MRF will be 9.2% bottles, 5.3% PTTs and 3.9% films; a total of 18.4% plastics. This is the calculation basis followed in the detailed methodological approach of the descriptive statistics presented in Section 4.2.1. Descriptive statistics ...
Plastic packaging waste statistics 2012: 34% recycling, 35%energy recoEU 27+2 recycled 5.4m tonnes, 34.7%, of all its plastic packaging waste in 2012, easily surpassing the EU's minimum target of 22.5%, says the annual report PlasPackaging Europe...
Widespread concerns about plastic pollution have compelled many countries to implement measures aimed at reducing plastic waste (PW) leakage into the envir
Cumulative plastic waste generation and disposal (in million metric tons). Continuous lines indicating historical statistics from 1950 to 2015; broken lines indicating forecasts of historic trends to 2050 (Geyer et al.2017a,b) (with permission to reuse) ...
Another alternative to traditional petrochemical plastics is AggiePol®, a novel bioplastic developed by Teysha Technologies. Since AggiePol® doesn’t contain petrochemicals, it doesn’t rely on finite fossil fuels. Instead, it’s made from natural feedstocks like agricultural waste that is hig...
Germany has the 19thbiggest population in the world, but generates almost 15 million tonnes of plastic waste per year – the third largest of any country on the planet. That makes itone of the highest consumers of the stuff per capita, with each German citizen estimated ...
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