Science is full of cycles. The water cycle, carbon cycle, hydrologic cycle, oxygen cycle...the list goes on and on! In elementary school, many of us learned the mantra about reducing, reusing, and recycling, typically accompanied by a little diagram synonymous...
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Tag: plastic recycling
Which Recyclable Materials Are the Easiest to Recycle?
Have you ever stopped to think about the people on the other end of your recycling? That is, the people who sort, process, and remake those recyclable materials into everyday usable products? Most people stop thinking about their recycling once...
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Interesting and Fun Facts About Plastic Recycling
At Polly Products, a big part of our job is to care about plastic recycling. Many of our employees work here because they are invested in making a positive environmental impact with their work. However, we don’t just care because...
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All Plastics Are Not Created Equal
The development of plastics may have been revolutionary back in the mid-century, but now they are a revolting problem. Plastics were initially more of a boon than a bane because they were lightweight, long-lasting, and durable, which was a much...
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Is Recycling a Fraud?
Is Recycling A Fraud, by Chaz Miller, Waste 360 Over the last few years, recycling has been subject to a barrage of bad press. First it was the bad markets caused largely by the Chinese decision to ban the imports...
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How You Can Help the US Plastic Recycling Industry
Some of us need a nudge before we’ll take action. The collective of recycling proponents and industry leaders got that when China implemented their National Sword campaign, which banned imported scrap plastics that didn’t meet their new, stringent contamination standards....
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