Looping Plastic into the Circular Economy
Published on 20 October 2017
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Plastic is an amazing material, with so many good uses, when not recovered to enter the circular economy, which roughly 90 percent of which is not; the pollution it creates is one of the most vexing issues of our time. It has a half-life which far exceeds that of carbon, is highly durable, complex in its make-up, widely diverse in its types, light weight, and hard to recover economically at scale. These traits create daunting challenges for scaled recovery.