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A Chemical Breakthrough That Could Fix the Plastic Crisis


Hyper-industrial-scale plastic production has become an industrial-scale health, environmental, and remediation problem. It is challenging to put a dollar figure on burying ourselves alive.

The damage appears to have no endpoint. The UNDP estimates that up to $600 billion in environmental damage and ecosystem losses so far, but that figure fails to capture a bare minimum of $250-billion in annual health-care costs linked to plastics. Microplastics are now in our blood and our organs. They are the air that we breathe.

It's becoming harder each day to put a figure on such a broad scale of damage, and it's getting worse, quickly. The world is now producing more than 400 million tonnes of plastic annually, and is eyeing 500 million tonnes in the next five years, with less than 10% recycled into usable material.

Textiles account for a massive share of this. Around 92 million tonnes of clothing are discarded every year, much of it polyester, and only about 1% is recycled back into new fibers. We built synthetics to last, and they do–forever.

Forever is now a present-day problem, but tech innovator Denovia has a solution: It's taking aim at one of the largest failure points in the global materials economy: The inability to turn plastic waste back into a usable supply.


https://oilprice.com/Energy/Energy-General/A-Chemical-Breakthrough-That-Could-Fix-the-Plastic-Crisis.html

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Encouraging!