The plastic curse

Of course, through the years recycling has also become a bone of contention, with many companies being accused, sometimes accurately, with employing 'recycling' as more a greenwashing buzzword than an actual process.

IN the days leading up to the start of the now currently underway COP27 climate talks in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, two interestingly contradictory publications found their way to my inbox. The first was a lengthy report by the World Bank Group that presents a comprehensive 'road map,' to use the term popular here, for creating a circular economy with plastic.

For example, high-density plastics can be recycled into lower-density products, but low-density products are difficult to upcycle into higher-density ones; it's not impossible, but is so uneconomical that it's more sensible — even from an environmental standpoint — to simply manufacture new ones.And there is a growing body of evidence that many recycled plastic products are actually more harmful to humans than the originals.

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