According to the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development, only between 5 to 9% of plastic waste is ...

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With 30 million tons of plastic in our landfills, it’s worth spending a bit of time to brainstorm ways to get creative with plastic.

Scientists Figured Out How to Recycle Plastic by Vaporizing It A new technique could prevent tons of waste in the future—if it can scale. Photograph: Rolf Vennenbernd/Getty Images ...

There’s more plastic per bottle, which makes it easier to recycle and makes the whole system kind of work a little bit better, but you’re using twice as much plastic for no reason.” Limited Recycling ...

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Mixing It Up Because plastics are often mixed at recycling centers, the researchers wanted to see what would happen if polypropylene and polyethylene underwent isomerizing ethenolysis together.