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Stephen Beech

UNBELIEVABLE: Innovative process vaporizes plastic waste into building blocks for new plastics - Caught on Camera

Dr. John Hartwig explained that polyethylene and polypropylene plastics comprise about two-thirds of consumer plastic waste worldwide. MALI MAEDER VIA PEXELS.

A radical new process “vaporizes” plastic bags and bottles to help make recycled materials.

American scientists say the innovative chemical procedure turns ubiquitous waste items into hydrocarbon “building blocks” for new plastics.

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