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Review Three ways to solve the plastics pollution crisis

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Researchers are studying how more-sophisticated policies, smarter recycling and new materials could stem the tide of waste.

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Two-step process converts mixtures of plastic into small molecules, but could be challenging to implement at scale.

Could waste plastic become a useful fuel source?

"Plastic waste dumps, says Prof Erwin Reisner, could be the oil fields of the future.

"Effectively, plastic is another form of fossil fuel," says Prof Reisner, who is professor of energy and sustainability at the University of Cambridge. "It's rich in energy and in chemical composition, which we want to unlock."

But the chemical bonds that make up plastics are made to last and, of the seven billion tonnes ever created, less than 10% has been recycled.

Dilyana Mihaylova, plastics programme manager for the Ellen MacArthur Foundation, says: "Our extractive, take-make-waste economy [means] billions of dollars' worth of valuable materials are lost."

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Plastics recycling & "chemical recycling

Those who follow this topic and like to download reports may like to take a look at this one by Greenpeace USA dated 24 October 2022. It is, as you might expect, downbeat but includes references and case histories which may be useful

https://www.greenpeace.org/usa/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/GPUS_FinalReport_2022.pdf