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This story is a partnership between Inside Climate News and CBS News. Watch the CBS Reports documentary, "Advanced Recycling: Does Big Plastic's Idea Work?". About 48 million tons of plastic waste ...
Plastic is processed at Exxon Mobil's chemical recycling plant in Baytown, Texas, in October 2023. (Sergio Flores / AFP via Getty Images)
Plastic is loaded onto a conveyer belt at ExxonMobil’s Baytown, Texas, chemical recycling plant in October 2023. Elon Musk, the world’s richest man, said earlier this month that recycling is ...
The Stanolind Recycling Plant was in operation as early 1947. [32] Another early recycling mill was Waste Techniques, built in Conshohocken, Pennsylvania in 1972. [citation needed] Waste Techniques was sold to Frank Keel in 1978, and resold to BFI in 1981. Woodbury, New Jersey, was the first city in the United States to mandate recycling. [33]
Plastic recycling is the processing of plastic waste into other products. [1] [2] [3] Recycling can reduce dependence on landfills, conserve resources and protect the environment from plastic pollution and greenhouse gas emissions. [4] [5] [6] Recycling rates lag behind those of other recoverable materials, such as aluminium, glass and paper.
Plastic recycling is the processing of plastic waste into other products. [22] [23] [24] Recycling can reduce dependence on landfills, conserve resources and protect the environment from plastic pollution and greenhouse gas emissions. [25] [26] [27] Recycling rates lag behind those of other recoverable materials, such as aluminium, glass and paper.
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For physical recycling, especially for recycle to food contact applications, rigorous sorting and cleaning is required. In Switzerland, for example, the steps that the bottles follow are the following [5] (similar processes are used elsewhere): [36] metal separation (to protect the granulator) granulation to 'flake' washing in hot water