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The science behind plastic recycling and why it needs a rethink
Plastic recycling is inefficient, toxic, and hard to scale. Engineers are now exploring better material flows to build safer ...
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OECD recommends Southeast Asia investments in plastic recycling
The Paris-based Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) says discarded plastic “leakage” into the ...
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Japan’s electron beam turns forever plastics into raw materials using half the energy
Researchers in Japan have developed a method that reduces the energy needed to recycle Teflon by 50%, using an electron beam ...
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Richmond has a location to recycle #5 plastic
“Most recycling centers pick, choose, plastics based on how quickly they can be melted down and repurposed for something else. The #5 [plastic] is a plastic that is hard to melt down,” Murphy ...
Chemical Engineering6d
Anellotech and R Plus Japan progress commercialization of catalytic cracking technology for plastic waste
Chemical recycling consortium R Plus Japan (RPJ) and Anellotech, Inc. (Pearl River, N.Y.) announced that Plas-TCat, an innovative catalytic cracking ...