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Groundbreaking Solutions for Reducing Plastic Pollution and Improving Ocean Health with Doug Woodring, Founder and Managing Director of Ocean Recovery Alliance

Hardware to Save a Planet

CHAPTER

The Future of Plastic Bottle Recycling

Plastic can only be recycled a certain number of times that polymer chains get shorter every time you recycle it and after a few cycles, it's not useful product anymore. You can still take that product and change it to be a fabric or a different part of a different product going into concrete now or asphalt. Another area that's coming very fast is basically repolymerization of the dirty stuff. So those machines are huge they're multi hundred million dollar to billion dollar machines France just announced a billion dollar plant. They need a lot of material, they need trade to happen. This is something we haven't talked about but trade and a global circular economy. And we do that with all of

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