#300 | Plastic Recycling - Is It Worth It?
English Learning for Curious Minds
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Does Plastic Recycling Really Work?
We continue to dump eight million metric tons of plastic into the oceans every year, and we aren't getting much better a recycling it. With chemical recycling, plastic is broken down into its chemical components, its building blocks, before being made into new material in theory. But there's still the same issue of persuading people to actually put their plastic in the recycling bin in the first place. The reality is that plastic is an incredibly useful invention, used in practically every aspect of modern life, and that simply getting rid of plastic without having an alternative is not a viable option.
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