Closing the plastic loop with a one-pot recycling process – AlKhaleej Today

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When we first started using plastics about 70 years ago, not much thought was given to the effects of their lifespan and the fact that they can take centuries to decompose. As plastics have diversified and become easier to make, the planet now spans about 8.3 billion tons of the material almost every piece of plastic ever made without enough technology or incentives to shrink that growing pile. Plastic is cheaper and easier to make and throw away than it…

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