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How to turn plastic waste in your recycle bin into profit

  • Written by Joshua M. Pearce, Wite Professor of Materials Science & Engineering, and Electrical & Computer Engineering, Michigan Technological University
How to turn plastic waste in your recycle bin into profitSaved from the trash heap and ready for transformation. Nathan Shaiyen/Michigan Tech, CC BY

People will recycle if they can make money doing so. In places where cash is offered for cans and bottles, metal and glass recycling has been a great success. Sadly, the incentives have been weaker for recycling plastic. As of 2015, only 9% of plastic waste...

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