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3 reasons to believe in the future of plastic recycling
Meanwhile, there are no other materials that can rival the combination of malleability, durability, and light weight offered by many kinds of plastics.
Vaclav Smil • How the World Really Works: The Science Behind How We Got Here and Where We're Going
the easiest items to recycle are the products made from a single material.
National Geographic • 7 Things You Didn’t Know About Plastic (and Recycling)
If people believe they can buy aluminum coffee capsules, plastic water bottles or even new cars expecting that everything will be recycled and reused, it allows them to consume with a clean conscience.
“The positive emotions associated with recycling can overpower the negative emotions associated with wasting” — Monic Sun and Remi Trudel, professors
... See morepolitico.eu • How Recycling Is Killing the Planet
During the first half of the 21st century—with slower global population growth and with stagnant or even declining counts in many affluent countries—economies should have no problems meeting the demand for steel, cement, ammonia, and plastics, especially with intensified recycling. But it is unlikely that by 2050 all of these industries will elimin
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