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  2. Plastic recycling - Wikipedia

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    Plastic recycling is the processing of plastic waste into other products. [1] [2] [3] Recycling can reduce dependence on landfill, conserve resources and protect the environment from plastic pollution and greenhouse gas emissions. [4] [5] Recycling rates lag behind those of other recoverable materials, such as aluminium, glass and paper.

  3. Bottle recycling - Wikipedia

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    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] Recycling one ton of glass can save approximately 42 kWh of energy which translates to 7.5 pounds of air pollutants not being released into the ...

  4. Recycling - Wikipedia

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    This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 10 December 2024. Converting waste materials into new products This article is about recycling of waste materials. For recycling of waste energy, see Energy recycling. "Recycled" redirects here. For the album, see Recycled (Nektar album). The three chasing arrows of the universal recycling symbol ...

  5. Plastic pollution - Wikipedia

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    There are varying rates of recycling per type of plastic, and in 2017, the overall plastic recycling rate was approximately 8.4% in the United States. Approximately 2.7 million tonnes (3.0 million short tons) of plastics were recycled in the U.S. in 2017, while 24.3 million tonnes (26.8 million short tons) plastic were dumped in landfills the ...

  6. Recycling by material - Wikipedia

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    Plastic recycling is the processing of plastic waste into other products. [19] [20] [21] Recycling can reduce dependence on landfill, conserve resources and protect the environment from plastic pollution and greenhouse gas emissions. [22] [23] Recycling rates lag behind those of other recoverable materials, such as aluminium, glass and paper.

  7. Starbucks promotes recycling to customers but many plastic ...

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    KW Plastics is one of a handful of facilities in America that recycles No. 5 plastics into new material, but of the 160,000 tons of plastic waste made up of No. 5 cups and plates generated in the ...

  8. This 9-year-old started his own recycling empire to save the ...

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    He started recycling at just three years old – now, he's helping tons of people all over the world get inspired to do the right thing. Watch his entire inspiring and adorable story on this ...

  9. VinyLoop - Wikipedia

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    VinyLoop is a recycling process which separates PVC from other materials through a process of dissolution, filtration and separation of contamination. A solvent is used in a closed loop to elute PVC from the waste. This makes it possible to recycle composite structure PVC waste, which would normally be incinerated or put in a landfill site. [3]