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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] [6] Recycling rates lag behind those of other recoverable materials, such as aluminium, glass and paper.

3. Materials recovery facility - Wikipedia

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   A materials recovery facility for the recycling of domestic waste Clean materials recovery facility recycling video. A materials recovery facility, materials reclamation facility, materials recycling facility or multi re-use facility (MRF, pronounced "murf") is a specialized waste sorting and recycling system [1] that receives, separates and prepares recyclable materials for marketing to end ...

4. Recycling by material - Wikipedia

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   Plastic recycling is the processing of plastic waste into other products. [22] [23] [24] Recycling can reduce dependence on landfill, 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.

5. Houston's plastic waste piles up, waiting on "advanced recycling"

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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 ...

6. U.S. plastic recycling rate drops to close to 5% - report - AOL

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   The rate of plastic waste recycling in the United States fell to between 5%-6% in 2021 as some countries stopped accepting U.S. waste exports and as plastic waste generation surged to new highs ...

7. Recycling in the United States - Wikipedia

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   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]

8. Do you trust plastic recycling? What really happens to the ...

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   But while recycling experts say paper and metal products are fairly easy to recycle, plastics — even the No. 1 and 2 items Boiseans separate from Styrofoam and plastic film — pose more of a ...

9. Closed-loop recycling - Wikipedia

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   For example, recycling one ton of plastic in a closed-loop system saves about 7.4 cubic yards of landfill space. Since the grocery industry demonstrated [ when? ] that consumers use at least 690,000 tons of plastic in a year, universal implementation of ideal closed-loop recycling systems could save at least 5.1 million cubic yards of landfill ...