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Cornell Researchers Create First-of-its-Kind Durable and Recyclable Plastic
One of the simplest enol esters in nature can be turned into crosslinked structures that compete with petroleum plastics for ...
Opinion
COMMENTARY: How much of what you recycle ends up at the dump?
Do you cross the street to put your soda can in the recycling bin or avidly pluck plastics and paper from your neighbor’s trash cans? The current state of recycling in the United States may ...
Grist on MSN3d
The ‘recycled’ plastic in your shoes, shirts, and bags? It’s still destined for the landfill.
“Taking a plastic bottle and turning it into part of a pair of sneakers that after a year will be buried or burned is not perpetuating a cycle,” said Kevin Budris, deputy director of Just Zero, a ...
City & State New York12d
Environmental advocates recycle campaign against plastic packaging for new session
Activists and plastics producers are back in Albany this week to continue last year’s fight over the Packaging Reduction and ...
The Hoya9d
Recently Proposed ‘Bottle Bill’ Provides Consumers with a New Incentive to Recycle
Councilmember Brianne Nadeau (D-Ward 1) proposed the Recycling, Refund and Litter Reduction Amendment Act of 2025, also referred to as the “Bottle Bill.” The amendment would place an initial 10-cent ...
Sacramento Bee on MSN2d
Innovation is the missing link in CA’s fight against plastic waste
such as colored shampoo bottles, takeout containers, textiles and fruit containers. Unlike other recycling technologies that produce large amounts of industrial fuel from plastic waste, approximately ...