In 2020, for the second year in a row, the California Legislature narrowly rejected a bill phasing out the majority of single-use plastics that can’t be recycled or composted. Had it passed,Senate Bill 54—the California Circular Economy and Plastic Pollution Reduction Act—would have establish...
A revised proposal is expected in 2021 In 2020, for the second year in a row, the California Legislature narrowly rejected a bill phasing out the majority of single-use plastics that can’t be recycled or composted. Had it passed, Senate Bill 54—the California Circular Economy and Plastic ...
"This makes plastic recycling viable and profitable, which provides us with an economically sustainable revenue stream," Yaron said. "Legacy Plastic allows companies to meet their sustainability goals to manufacture their products using local, high quality post-consumer recycled content resins that have ...
Contrary to what many consumers believe, less than 10 percent of post-consumer plastic in the United States is actually recycled. The environmental and health harms caused by the production and use of plastic are numerous. The fracking and mining of fossil fuels used to produce plastic and the...
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(PlasticsEurope, 2019) while plastic waste generation reached 6.9 Mt (~3.2 Mt for short-life products); from which approximately 22% was incinerated, 25% recycled, and 42% inefficiently treated (i.e., either littered or inadequately disposed of in dumps or open landfills) (Hahladakis et ...
plasma is being used more and more by plastic part producers that are turning to regrind or recycled plastics, which might vary from batch to batch. “In those cases,” Stecher remarked, “plasma provides a measure of insurance against unknown additives or contaminants by offering a more robust...
is not a single material but is composed of many related polymers that also sometimes include metal, paper, colorants, and other materials. The materials cannot be recycled together and cannot be separated for individual recycling, a catch-22 that lands some 95 percent of plastic in landfills an...
It is important to be aware that the PET derived PBT compositions of the invention are not “recycled,” as the term is ordinarily used. That is, the compositions are not reprocessed PBT or PET. Rather, they are entirely new materials made from PET, a material that is fundamentally ...