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Conclusion: A Safer Future for Plastics in Food When it comes to food packaging and storage
as a consumer it is very important to know what
The creation of the BPA-free and food-grade material is being used. Search for BPA-free,
plastics are a step in the right direction whereby use only food-grade products, and if possible
to make plastic safe for food chain. Trends in choose materials that are ecofriendly. If innova-
the recent past have revealed how plastics were tion and awareness are kept up, we can great-
harming our health as well as the over environ- fully anticipate a future where the materials we
ment and due to this producers and manufactur- come across every day are safe and won’t harm
ers have embraced better quality plastics that us or the environment.
can meet those new standards.
Source – Plastics Technology
Chemical Recycling of Plastics:
Turning Waste into Valuable Resources
part of almost everything we do in our daily lives.
However, like any service that makes things eas-
ier for you, it does not come free. Littering with
plastics, pollutes the soil, water bodies including
the seas and has very negative impacts to the
lives of aquatic animals. However, most forms
of plastics, including post-industrial and post-
consumer plastics, find their way into landfills
or incinerators through conventional recycling.
This is where chemical recycling can provide the
much-needed change by cooking plastics and
recovering valuable resources for use in the cre-
ation of new products forming the foundation
for a circular economy.
The Problem of Plastic Waste
Therefore, to give some perspective before we
cological deterioration especially by plas-
tics have as a result turned out to be one delve deeper into chemical recycling, let’s take a
Eof the biggest challenges within the cur- look at the size of the plastic waste issue. More
rent society. As the carriers we use to carry our seafood by value or weight may be composed
groceries or the containers that shield our foods of plastics than fish by 2050 according to the
from different elements, plastics have become World Economic Forum. Still, it also acknowl-
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