Your food is packaged in it, your phone is made from it, and you even chew on it in the form of gum. But while most plastics are touted as recyclable, the reality is that they’re “downcycled” — a plastic milk carton can never be made into another carton.
Our planet is drowning in plastic, but there are simple ways you can reduce your plastic waste and make a big difference.
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Closed-loop Polymer Recovery may not be fully achievable in terms of economic reality just yet, but the HDPE from your...
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JW, but why don’t they just clean the bottles—really well—and reuse them? My science teacher says that they do use some...
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Why is everything plastic? Seriously science! We’re running out otf the raw material! (yes, it will take a few decades,...
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“downcycling” this.this.this. i try to explain this to people and they don’t get it.
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bottle? Why?” Oh, no reason.
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