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How do waste plants pick through all our unsorted recyclables?
Caleigh Wells/KCRW
Single-stream recycling is convenient for consumers, but difficult for recycling companies. It requires a long and complicated process to make trash valuable.
French company is recycling used face masks into useful objects
John Laurenson
The company takes used and discarded symbols of the pandemic and turns them into items such as coat hangers and classroom rulers.
Even if we manage to stop using oil as fuel, plastics made from oil will be harder to give up
Phillippe Lopez/AFP Getty Images
Plastics are regarded as “Plan B” for the fossil fuel industry.
In Mexico City, a plastics ban prompts debate over women’s access to tampons
Rodrigo Cervantes
Women’s rights advocates say the plastics ban leaves low-income women with few options.
How billiards created the modern world
Early promoters needed a substitute for ivory billiard balls. Result? Plastics.
A small UK company with big graphene dreams
The wonder material isolated a decade ago has yet to live up to its promise.
Dow: Time for an industry built by plastics to move on
Dow Chemical says it’s shifting away from the commodity chemical market so much so that it may drop 'Chemical' from its name.
Chemical and plastics industries love fracking
Cheap natural gas has made the U.S. one of the cheapest places to make plastics.
Plastic’s fantastic for thieves in California
Thieves steal millions of dollars of plastic pallets and milk cases from businesses. Sold to recyclers, the plastic is then used to make new pallets and milk cases.
What do those numbers on the bottoms of plastic containers mean? Which numbers are the easiset to recycle?
Easy Answer: The numbers on the bottom of plastic bottles let you know the type of plastic they're made of. The easiest to recycle are numbers 1…

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