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Besides diamonds, what else is "eternal"? The ultra-refractory single-use plastic waste is gradually realizing that upgrading and transforming it into more valuable products makes the recycling process more attractive and effective
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01They made a book out of plastic waste to leave a thousand years from now
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Over four months, Ki Saigon collected 327 letters from 22 countries addressed to people 1,000 years later
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Ki Saigon fuses these plastics into one-of-a-kind pages and silkscreens letters from people on them
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02For the trendy Buøy collection made from ocean waste plastic, one board is made from about five 500ml PET bottles
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Techno-Lab hopes to help solve these problems by recycling the waste collected, and the sale of recycled products finances such activities
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03Scientists use waste plastic to create vanilla spices
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Researchers have developed mutant enzymes capable of breaking down polyethylene terephthalate (PET) polymer used in beverage bottles into terephthalic acid (TA), using bacteria to convert TA to vanillin
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This is the first example of using a biological system to recycle plastic waste into valuable industrial chemicals, and it will have a very important impact on the circular economy
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The research upends the idea that plastic is a waste that poses pollution problems and demonstrates its use as a new carbon resource that can be used to make high-value products
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