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Plastic is one of the world’s most ubiquitous materials, essential to daily life as we know it. Production is growing at a rate of 3.4 percent—three times faster than our global population growth.
While single-stream recycling is convenient, it has downsides. The roads of the future could be paved with plastic Stanford researchers show the viability of recycled plastic in construction. These ...
About 70 percent of PVC goes to building and construction uses such as pipes, cables, siding, window and door profiles, flooring, fencing, decking and roofing. The low-cost, easy-to-install products ...
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Why recycling alone can't solve plastic pollution
The statistics around plastic recycling are absolutely devastating. In 2024, only 9% of plastic waste was recycled globally, while 91% of plastic waste is believed to not be recycled. Even worse, the ...
ANN ARBOR – PVC, or polyvinyl chloride, is a prevalent plastic in the United States and is the third highest plastic produced in the world by volume. We encounter PVC every day, since numerous ...
Learn how UNR’s Environmental Health & Safety supports plastic film recycling with new campus drop‑off locations and ...
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