Despite careful consumer attempts to separate and sort recyclables, the grim reality is that the majority of recyclable plastic bottles end up in landfills. The limits of traditional recycling technologies play a key role in this issue. Traditional recycling procedures primarily limited to the processing of type one and type two plastics, which include soda plastic bottles, bottles of water, and milk jugs. This [...]
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