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By 2050 Oceans Will Have More Trash Than Fish

Guest Contributor — Fri, 22 Jan 2016 18:27:19 +0000

By 2050 there will be more trash in the ocean than fish. That is a lot of pollution! And sadly, most of the trash is plastics as reported by the World Economic Forum. They stated that up to 32 % of plastic waste becomes pollution in our rivers and oceans. Plastics do not decompose quickly […]

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IBM and Stanford Discover Chemical Recycling of PETs at Low Temperatures

Ovidiu Sandru — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 15:18:58 +0000

Usually, plastic bottles, (aka PETs) are recycled by mechanical technologies, and they get several other uses afterwards: carpets, sweaters, etc. They don't ever return to their original water bottle use.It is possible to chemically recycle PETs, but the method has been so far very expensive and the industry doesn't want that option.

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Melting Plastics in Biodiesel Cleaner Than Recycling Them?

Ovidiu Sandru — Wed, 06 May 2009 06:46:45 +0000

We are used to throwing our garbage in the bin, dispose it, and then forget it (and pay the monthly garbage collecting tax). What we often hear is that piles of garbage have saturated square kilometers in big cities, and that by making us comfortable, the garbage company (and, indirectly, us) pollutes the soil and the environment on a very large scale.

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