7 Things You Didn’t Know About Plastic (and Recycling)
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7 Things You Didn’t Know About Plastic (and Recycling)
there are many opportunities for change, for producing materials inputs much more efficiently, and for designing them for greater longevity and easier recyclability to last longer, in order to reuse all commodities much more effectively while creating fewer environmental impacts.
Vaclav Smil • Making the Modern World: Materials and Dematerialization
This global unevenness calls for a range of solutions. In wealthier countries, our strategy includes standardized labeling, municipal composting programs, and public awareness campaigns. And we need more effective waste-reduction programs between retailers and food banks and their supply chains.
Ryan Panchadsaram • Speed & Scale
First, recycling programs across the U.S. are successfully recycling plastic today, and we know what it will take to recycle more of it.
Scott Mouw • 3 reasons to believe in the future of plastic recycling
cannot be recycled due to high concentrations of alloying elements.
Vaclav Smil • Making the Modern World: Materials and Dematerialization
In the natural world, nothing goes to waste. Matter constantly decomposes and reconstitutes in new shapes, serving new purposes. We have much to learn from this continuum of transmutation in human societies, where we throw “away” our waste to some invisible hereafter, rather than accept the truth: it remains.
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