plastic recycling

‘Plastic recycling is a myth’: what really happens to your rubbish?

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You sort your recycling, leave it to be collected – and then what? From councils burning the lot to foreign landfill sites overflowing with British rubbish, Oliver Franklin-Wallis reports on a global waste crisis

“The ocean cleanup” or how to extract plastics from the ocean

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Massive quantities of plastic garbage are already contaminating our oceans. Where millions of tons of plastic kill ocean life and poison food chains, somebody sees opportunities to combat this. To extract 7 billion kg of plastic from the ocean in just 5 years? Is this feasible? Dutch tech student Boyan Slat says yes. His concept called … Read more