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Plastic Matters November 2021 |
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These giant companies are working together to find the best use of Ocean plastic. By Talib Visram In an effort to reroute plastic waste that would otherwise end up polluting our oceans, businesses are already finding ways to incorporate ocean-bound plastic into their products. But, discovering that there’s strength in numbers, some are joining a consortium of companies called NextWave Plastics to share their learnings and achieve the plastic diversion on a greater scale. |
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Cornell University research creates in-depth framework for chemical recycling of plastic. By Bulbul Dhawan Chemical recycling is a process that allows waste products to be changed back into natural resources by physical breakdown of plastic into smaller molecules from which it was originally produced. New York-based Cornell University’s College of Engineering has carried out new research to ease this process. |
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Plastic’s Role in Accelerating a Low-Carbon, Sustainable Economy. By Jeff Wooster As a surge of companies commit to carbon neutrality in the coming years, many are left with taking a hard look at their enterprise and supply chains as they build their plans for a path forward. It won’t be a simple process. |
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A collaborate to develop ground-breaking recyclable food-contact barrier shrink film. By Polymerupdate.com Dow and Bolloré have joined forces on a pilot project which enables the use of recycled content in new food-contact packaging applications which can in turn be recycled after use. |
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New Plymouth businessman turns up heat to solve plastic waste problem. By Mike Waston Max Brough, wants to set up a mobile plant to turn commercial and industrial plastic waste, which cannot be recycled, into energy by burning it through an extreme heat process called pyrolysis. |
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Mumbai gets a new plastic recycling plant. By Chittranjan Tembhekar A plant dedicated to collect, segregate, recycle and reuse 25 tons of plastic waste every month in Mumbai region and beyond has been put on execution mode. Considered as the first such centre in the city for all kinds of plastics. |
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That’s all for now. Issued in public interest by Indian Centre for Plastics in the Environment,
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