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Honoring Global Recycling Day: Definitions and Benefits of Recycling

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March 18th is Global Recycling Day, an international initiative to increase awareness of recycling and educate on how to incorporate it into our everyday lives. Recycling is the process of converting items that would normally be thrown away as trash (whether during or after the original manufacturing process) into new materials and objects. Recyclables are …

Investigating Post-Consumer Materials

According to the National Academy of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, America needs to rethink the way it generates plastics in order to substantially reduce its contribution to plastic waste in the ocean. One strategy to do so is the use of post-consumer materials in manufacturing. There are two types of recyclable materials: pre-consumer and post-consumer. …