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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. [28] Of the remaining waste, 12% was incinerated and 79% was either sent to landfills or lost to the environment as pollution. [28]
First recycled glass and plastic road in New South Wales, Australia at suburb Engadine. Plastic roads were first developed by Rajagopalan Vasudevan in 2001, [2] consisting of an asphalt mix incorporating plastic waste. The incorporation of plastics in roads could open an additional option for recycling post-consumer plastics.
Approximately 6.3 Bt of this was discarded as waste, of which around 79% accumulated in landfills or the natural environment, 12% was incinerated, and 9% was recycled - only ~1% of all plastic has been recycled more than once. [7] More recently, as of 2017, still only 9% of the 9 Bt of plastic produced was recycled. [39] [40]
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. [33] Of the remaining waste, 12% was incinerated and 79% was either sent to landfills or lost to the environment as pollution. [33]
Recycling codes on products. Recycling codes are used to identify the materials out of which the item is made, to facilitate easier recycling process.The presence on an item of a recycling code, a chasing arrows logo, or a resin code, is not an automatic indicator that a material is recyclable; it is an explanation of what the item is made of.
The first post- World War II mass recycling program in the United States, "Ban The Can," was conceived and executed in 1970 by Ruth "Pat" Webb in Honolulu, Hawaii. Webb organized military and civilian volunteers to collect over 9 tons (8,200 kg) of metal cans from the roadways and highways of Oahu. The metal cans were later recycled into steel ...
TerraCycle is a private U.S.-based recycling business headquartered in Trenton, New Jersey. [2] It primarily runs a volunteer-based recycling platform to collect non-recyclable pre-consumer and post-consumer waste on behalf of corporate donors, municipalities, and individuals to turn it into raw material to be used in new products.
Precious Plastic is an open hardware plastic recycling project and is a type of open source digital commons project. [12] It relies on a series of machines and tools which grind, melt, and inject recycled plastic, allowing for the creation of new products out of recycled plastic on a small scale. [13]
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