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Organizers hoped to "creatively raise awareness about plastic debris and pollution in the ocean," specifically the Great Pacific Garbage Patch trapped in the North Pacific Gyre, by sailing 2,600 miles across the Pacific Ocean on a 30-foot (9.1 m) raft made from an old Cessna 310 aircraft fuselage and six pontoons filled with 15,000 old plastic ...
Venice Biennale installation by Małgorzata Mirga-Tas (2022) - artistic upcycling of old textile materials. While recycling usually means the materials are remade into their original form, e.g., recycling plastic bottles into plastic polymers, which then produce plastic bottles through the manufacturing process, upcycling adds more value to the materials, as the name suggested.
Thus only approximately 15% of collected PET bottles were actually recycled into new bottles, the rest being used in generally non-recyclable products. Petcore , the European trade association that fosters the collection and recycling of PET, reported that in the EU 28+2, [ 6 ] out of 3.4 Mt bottles sold, 2.1Mt of PET bottles were collected in ...
Recycled glass is a necessity, as without it, manufacturers would not be able to keep up with the demand for new glass containers. [2] Recycling one glass bottle can save enough energy to power a computer for 25 minutes. [5] In fact for every 10% of cullet added to the production of a new bottle, energy usage goes down by 3-4%. [2]
From the start of plastic production through to 2015, the world produced around 6.3 billion tonnes of plastic waste, only 9% of which has been recycled and only ~1% has been recycled more than once. [27] Of the remaining waste, 12% was incinerated and 79% was either sent to landfills or lost to the environment as pollution. [27]
Lego’s big plan to make bricks out of recycled plastic bottles would have actually made emissions worse, so it’s going back to the drawing board Ryan Hogg September 25, 2023 at 4:31 AM
This re-usable carrier bag has been made from recycled plastic bottles. It is an example of open-loop recycling In open-loop recycling, also known as secondary recycling, or downcycling , the quality of the plastic is reduced each time it is recycled, so that the material eventually becomes unrecyclable.
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