The Truth about Recycling in the United Kingdom 英国废品回收的真相 A recent report shows that even if yourecycle your plastic waste,a lot of it actually still ends up in landfill sites – large areas where all the rubbishis dumped. The NAO (National Audit Office) that reviewsgovernment dep...
both businesses and consumers must take action. Plastic bag recycling must continue to grow, however, with the number of materials currently in circulation, we must prioritize the reduction of these products in order to help plastic bag recycling plants keep up with demand. ...
It is clear, Brown said, that “we don’t know what to do with [microplastics] once we find them.” But the recycling study “highlights to me that we just need to be making so much more effort in reducing our plastic production and consumption, instead of focusing on recycling.”...
根据划线词前文“According to one analysis, only 9% of all plastic ever made has likely been recycled.(根据一项分析,可能只有9%的塑料制品被回收)”和划线词后文“companies making all that plastic have spent millions on advertising campaigns lecturing us about recycling while knowing full well that ...
Recycling plastic has always been a stop-start effort,and the wide variety of plastics we produce,the pollution from waste,and other limitations make recycling an economic(经济)problem.It's estimated(估计)only 9% of plastic ever created has been recycled.But with the help of a chemical ...
Recycling plastic has always been a stop-start effort, andthe wide variety of plastic we produce, the pollution fromwaste, and other limitations make recycling an economic issue.It's estimated only 9% of plastic ever created has beenrecycled. But with the help of a chemical process, Canadian...
It’s important to know which you can put in your home recycling – and which have to go to special recycling points or into the general waste bin. Embed from Getty Images 1. PLASTICS Plastic is versatile and allows us to make lots of different stuff such as toys, play stations, clothin...
Recycling could also reduce our energy bills. The EPA claims recycling one million laptops could save the same amount of energy as that used by 3,657 American homes in a year. And what about the 65% of people in the world who don't have access to a computer or smartphone? There are ...
plastics cannot. Plastic recycling does not work and will never work. The United States in 2021 had a dismal recycling rate of about 5 percent for post-consumer plastic waste, down from a high of 9.5 percent in 2014, when the U.S. exported millions of tons of plastic waste to China and...
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.