Plastic is everywhere—food packaging, furniture, and children’s toys—making it a defining material of the modern world. According to Greenpeace, humanity produced approximately 9.2 billion tonnes of this material as of the 1950s. In 2019, that number was 368 million tonnes, and only 9% was recycled. This low recycling rate highlights significant challenges, from inefficient systems … Continue reading The Complete Plastics Recycling Process