A component Sort Code that better identifies its type of plastic material for recycling
By improving the sorting of plastic items we can improve the recycling of plastic items.
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By improving the sorting of plastic items we can improve the recycling of plastic items.
There is a need there, how that translates into paying $s I am not sure. Bit of a chicken and the egg scenario: money/sponsors are required to build a good website, but money/sponsors are hard to get until the website has been built. I think the IDEO people should comment, along with the Ellen MacArthur foundation.
Thanks Vivek, a good explanation. The fact that no high grade polymers can, at present, be recycled into high grade polymers has terrible implications for the circular economy. I knew it was bad, but not that bad, the chemists/engineers who work in the industry will have to come up with something fast. In addition, I really wish that people would make this basic fact crystal clear (like you have). A lot of information from industry/government obfuscates this key point. Look at the Polymark project, there is no reference to this point there:
http://www.polymark.org/
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