Category: Waste & Waste Management
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America Recycles Day: Recycle textiles, batteries, bulbs, and e-waste
Our columnist David Goldstein explores Ventura County’s America Recycles Day initiative, highlighting textile recycling challenges, electronic waste collection, and community…
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LyondellBasell Plans New Chemical Recycling Plant in Europe
LyondellBasell expects its second chemical recycling plant to be located in Europe, citing stronger regulatory support than in the United…
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UK Cracks Down on Plastic Recycling Claims
Britain will require certification of mechanically recycled plastic packaging from 2030, targeting unreliable claims and strengthening Plastic Packaging Tax compliance.
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Taiwan Plastic Recycling and Recycled Content Scandal
Taiwan dismantles a $2.2 million illegal plastic waste disposal network, indicting six individuals and three companies over unauthorized operations.
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EU Recycling Scandal: 35,000 Tonnes of Italian Waste Illegally Dumped in Croatia
An EU recycling scandal exposes illegal waste dumping in Croatia, hazardous plastics, groundwater contamination and serious weaknesses in cross-border controls.
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UK Relaxes Plastic Recycling Enforcement Rules for 2026
The UK eases recycling enforcement for 2026, allowing lower compliance thresholds for plastic, wood and steel packaging without changing targets.
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Newsom Killed California’s Plastic Recycling Crackdown
Governor Newsom vetoed California’s major recycling bill, handing the powerful petrochemical industry a massive corporate victory over advanced plastic regulations.
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The Challenges of Plastic Waste Management
The article examines the real trade-offs of plastic waste management, from recycling and reuse to exports, bioplastics and incineration, questioning…
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French Documentary: Inside France’s Waste Mafia
A French documentary investigates the country’s waste mafia, exposing illegal trafficking networks through the testimony of former waste trafficker.
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Belgian Waste Processor Burns Down in Major Industrial Fire
A major fire burned through a Belgian waste-processing site in Roeselare, raising questions about safety, waste handling and investigation.
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Italy Defies Brussels on Compostable Plastics
Italy’s compostable-plastics exemption raises questions over actual composting capacity, market interests, and the potential long-term consequences for Italian food production.
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TF1 Exposes Italy’s Toxic Waste Problem
TF1 investigates decades of illegal toxic waste dumping in Italy, exposing the devastating environmental and health consequences for local communities.
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PepsiCo and the Great Plastic Puzzle
PepsiCo explores Aduro’s advanced recycling technology as a potential route to turn difficult plastic waste into valuable reusable feedstocks.
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Don’t Produce Less Plastic — Recycle More, Study Says
Study argues better waste collection and recycling could cut plastic pollution more cheaply than limiting production and raising consumer prices.
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EU Says Don’t Export Waste — Then Sends It to Turkey
Europe cannot recycle all its plastic waste, so it ships the problem to Turkey. Brussels calls this environmental policy.
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EU Greenwashing Rules Collide With “Circular” Plastics
EU greenwashing rules collide with mass-balance accounting, raising questions over whether fossil-based plastics can legitimately be marketed as circular.
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Europe, Where Do Tetra Paks Actually Go?
Europe tells consumers exactly how to sort Tetra Paks. What happens after collection remains a much less transparent story.
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Italy’s Waste Scandal: Mafia, Business and Politics
Italy’s waste crisis exposed a toxic mix of mafia trafficking, failed politics, corporate contracts and poisoned land—leaving Campania to pay…
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Italy Mandates Compostable Packaging Amid Conflict-of-Interest Concerns
Italy’s compostable-plastics policy raises conflict-of-interest concerns as state ownership and waste strategy increasingly overlap.
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EU Ends Plastic Waste Export Carousel
The EU will ban plastic waste exports to non-OECD countries from November 2026, tightening controls and pushing more recycling within…
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Philippines Cracks Down on 155 Companies Over Plastic EPR Compliance
The Philippines is stepping up enforcement of its plastic packaging rules, ordering 155 companies to explain their alleged failure to…
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The Waste Shipment Regulation fairy tale
After decades of treating developing nations as Europe’s personal plastic landfills, a new EU law finally kicked in this May…
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PPWR: And They All Recycled Happily Ever After
A European fairy tale in which every plastic package finds the correct bin, every recycling plant works perfectly, compostable plastic…
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Chemical Recycling Bubble Begins to Burst
Chemical Recycling Faces a Reality Check as Projects Stall Across Europe and the US
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Italy says it Recycled more than 75% of Packaging
Italy Recycles Record 77.3% of Packaging, Strengthening Its Circular Economy Credentials
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Is DG COMP Trying to Block Compostable Plastics in Europe?
The European Commission has once again found itself at the centre of the debate over compostable plastics.
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Is Italy’s Waste Management System Collapsing?
Italy managed to convince EU officials that its waste management system was a best-in-class example. Watch the video
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Pakistan is one of the biggest polluter on the planet
Here’s an interesting video on waste management in Pakistan.
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UK’s inconvenient plastic waste management
Household rubbish weighing 30,000 tonnes (mostly plastics) has been dumped at a protected site and covered with soil. The same…
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EU PPWR Guidance
Personal Remarks Lobbyists have done a great job. The European Commission is once again avoiding taking the bull by the…
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EU PPWR is a complete failure
The European Circular Economy: Now Circulating Mostly Microplastics The European Commission has launched yet another consultation on the Packaging and…
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Why plastic recycling companies are leaving Europe?
For decades, the plastics and chemical industries operated with virtually no oversight regarding waste management. The European Commission’s regulatory framework…
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India has become the biggest polluter on the planet
India is drowning in its own garbage.
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Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission proposes Moratorium on plastic waste imports (Video)
Personal Remarks This is a good idea. The amount of corruption in the plastic and plastic waste industry is impressive.…
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Is Bill Gates’ Waste Management dishonest towards Canadians?
Bill Gates is major stakeholder in the company Waste Management in Canada.
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Bioplastic circularity: Experts split on most effective disposal method
https://www.packaginginsights.com/news/bioplastics-disposal-options-debate.html
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New York City collects 5.9M pounds of compostable material
https://www.wastetodaymagazine.com/news/new-york-city-collects-five-million-pounds-of-compostable-material
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Indian property management dealing with waste
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Indian train companies dealing with waste (Part II)
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How indian train companies are dealing with waste (Video)
Our relation to waste and waste management are culturally defined. Some cultures are just polluting more than others. Some may…
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Green Science Alliance Made Quantum Dot from Plastic Wastes
https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/green-science-alliance-made-quantum-dot-from-plastic-wastes-302610277.html
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Green alternative for light-emitting materials in displays uses plant waste and amino acids
https://techxplore.com/news/2025-11-green-alternative-emitting-materials-displays.html
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Cruise ships dumping their waste in the ocean (video)
How cruise ships get rid of their waste in the middle of the oceans. Is this real or is this…
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Waste-2-Plastic: Turning wastewater into bioplastic
https://www.umu.se/en/events/waste-2-plastic-turning-wastewater-into-bioplastic_12146910
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Plastic spends century on ocean surface, study finds
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cy8v5jgyq20o.amp
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The Poshest Belgian Avenue is a landfill
The Avenue Louise is the poshest avenue in the capital of Europe (Brussels, Belgium). Belgians pay more than 55 %…
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Plastic packaging waste in the EU: 35.3 kg per person
https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/en/web/products-eurostat-news/w/ddn-20251022-1
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Bill Gates has high stakes in recycling business
16 % of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Trust is invested in a recycling company. As recycling doesn’t exist…
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Finetech Unveils Eco-Friendly Packaging Line Compatible With Compostable and Recyclable Materials
https://www.biospace.com/press-releases/finetech-unveils-eco-friendly-packaging-line-compatible-with-compostable-and-recyclable-materials
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The David vs. Goliath Battle to Pass the New York Packaging Reduction and Recycling Infrastructure Act
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China plans to rip off Cambodia with waste
China intends to export its plastic waste to Cambodia. Has China suddenly invented a new recycling method of are they…
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BASF Presentation on biodegradability as end-of-life option
BASF produces PBAT who is bad for the soil and human health. But the allmighty BASF always gets its way…
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Ultrathin bioplastics: scientists develop an alternative to traditional plastics from food waste
Ultrathin bioplastics: scientists develop an alternative to traditional plastics from food waste
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Sulzer and TripleW produce PLA bioplastic from food waste at scale
https://www.ofimagazine.com/news/sulzer-and-triplew-produce-pla-bioplastic-from-food-waste-at-scale
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Scientists’ electrochemical process enables biodiesel producers to transform waste into planet-friendly profit
https://www.lboro.ac.uk/media-centre/press-releases/2025/october/electrochemical-transform-biodiesel-solketal
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Kennebunkport launches pilot composting program to cut waste
https://eu.seacoastonline.com/story/news/local/2025/10/04/kennebunkport-launches-pilot-composting-program-to-cut-waste/86495677007
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Waste PET Bottle-Based Midsoles
https://www.cleanthesky.com/innovation/far-eastern-new-century
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Are compostable plastics preferable to biodegradable ones?
https://theedgemalaysia.com/node/772149
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Closed Loop to bribe composters to accept compostable plastics
Compostable plastics will become a major source of toxic microplastics in the US food chain.
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Sephora fined for improper hazardous waste management
https://www.personalcareinsights.com/news/sephora-hazardous-waste-fine.html
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UK water company said naturally occurring glucose in sewage could be turned into biofuels, bioplastics and detergents
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c1dq910534qo
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Compostable Field Testing Program earns funding for research initiative
https://www.wastetodaymagazine.com/news/compostable-field-testing-program-earns-funding-for-research-initiative
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Scientists transform plastic waste into efficient CO2 capture materials
https://news.ku.dk/all_news/2025/09/scientists-transform-plastic-waste-into-efficient-co2-capture-materials
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Industry buys composting infrastructure to contaminate US food chain with microplastics
My dear American friends, the plastic industry wants you to eat plastic.
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Advocates push bill to shift packaging waste costs to producers to reduce plastics & trash
https://www.waer.org/news/2025-09-22/advocates-push-bill-to-shift-packaging-waste-costs-to-producers-to-reduce-plastics-trash
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Portugal to invest €30 million to strengthen recycling and waste recovery
Translated by Google Translate Notice of the Environmental Fund, financed by the PRR and framed within REPowerEU, supports the installation…
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Sulzer and TripleW transform food waste to PLA Bioplastic at scale
https://www.sulzer.com/en/shared/news/250909_sulzer-and-triplew-transform-food-waste-to-pla-bioplastic-at-scale
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Scientists sound the alarm after making disturbing discovery deep in Mediterranean Sea: ‘It was an unsolved mystery’
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/scientists-sound-alarm-making-disturbing-233500808.html
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B.C. non-profit turns plastic waste from the ocean into patio furniture (Video)
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MOL Tests New Way to Make Plastics from Waste
https://hungarytoday.hu/mol-tests-new-way-to-make-plastics-from-waste
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Japan backs new material development to reduce marine plastic waste
https://www.nationthailand.com/blogs/news/world/40055469
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How this tiny B.C. community is making an outsized impact on plastic waste
https://vancouversun.com/news/tofino-bc-plastic-waste
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The Future Of Plastic Waste Management
https://www.forbes.com/councils/forbestechcouncil/2025/09/11/the-future-of-plastic-waste-management
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Scottish college launches reverse vending machine trial offering 20p per bottle
https://resource.co/article/scottish-college-launches-reverse-vending-machine-trial-offering-20p-bottle
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Bio-based plastic sorting trial demonstrates recycling breakthrough
https://resource.co/article/bio-based-plastic-sorting-trial-demonstrates-recycling-breakthrough
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What Are ‘Neptune Balls,’ The Microplastic-Filled Clumps Washing Up On Beaches?
https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/neptune-balls-microplastics-explained_uk_68baea62e4b04dd23504941b
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Circular Strategies for Polylactic Acid Waste: A Pathway to Advanced Thermosets
https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acssuschemeng.5c04557
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Chattanooga announces partnership for curbside composting and glass pick-up
https://www.timesfreepress.com/news/2025/sep/06/chattanooga-announces-partnership-for-curbside
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Should end-of-life options determine the future of packaging technology? (FREE)
Should the circular economy dictate the future of packaging technology? Haven’t we learned a lesson from the recycling fairy tale?…
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Updated UK statistics on waste
https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/uk-waste-data/uk-statistics-on-waste
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US researchers engineer enzymes to create recyclable bioplastics from crops, farm waste
https://interestingengineering.com/innovation/u-s-crops-recyclable-bioplastics
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Ethiopia confronts packaging waste crisis amid rising animal welfare concerns
https://www.packaginginsights.com/news/donkey-animal-welfare-ethiopia-plastic-ban.html
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SAXY PLASTICS: New Plastics from Regional Waste – Fully Recyclable and Biodegradable
https://idw-online.de/en/news857104
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Indonesia prepares mandatory EPR as part of plastic waste management strategy
https://www.packaginginsights.com/news/indonesia-epr-plastic-producers-waste-management.html
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Plastic Pollution on the Tunisian coast (FREE)
I traveled to Hammamet in Tunisia in October 2024 and brought back some pictures and videos to show the amount…
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Australia’s amount of plastic waste surges as recycling rates fail to improve
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/aug/24/australias-amount-of-plastic-waste-surges-as-recycling-rates-fail-to-improve
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Report shows $5B in materials saved from landfills
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Inside the Trash can of Mick Jagger
Let’s see how much plastic there is inside the trash can of Mick Jagger from the Rolling Stones.
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‘We are drowning in plastic’: Environmentalists, lawmakers urge Newsom not to weaken plastic pollution law
https://phys.org/news/2025-08-plastic-environmentalists-lawmakers-urge-newsom.html
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Wales announces new consultation on DRS to include reusable & single-use containers
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Denver could soon require lots more composting. Who will get their hands dirty?
https://denverite.com/2025/08/15/denver-new-composting-rules-waste-no-more
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Corporate lobbyists challenge plastic production cuts and waste management reform in Africa
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EPA Withdraws Proposed SNURs for 18 Chemicals Made from Plastic Waste-Based Feedstocks
https://www.lawbc.com/epa-withdraws-proposed-snurs-for-18-chemicals-made-from-plastic-waste-based-feedstocks
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Biffa closes UK recycling plant amid regulatory uncertainty and waste exports
https://www.packaginginsights.com/news/uk-recycling-plant-shutdown-biffa-regulations.html
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Binghamton University researchers develop process to turn food waste into biodegradable plastic
https://www.binghamton.edu/news/story/5671/binghamton-university-researchers-develop-process-to-turn-food-waste-into-biodegradable-plastics
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Environmental life cycle assessment of renewable starch alternative plastic: a comparative analysis of end-of-life scenarios in the Republic of Korea
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0959652625015288
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What is the Science Behind Plastic Pollution?
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IIT Madras researchers develop agri-waste-based packaging solution to eliminate plastic usage, check details
https://www.hindustantimes.com/education/news/iit-madras-develops-agriculture-waste-based-packaging-solution-aimed-at-eliminating-plastic-dependency-check-details-101754137956640.html
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Scientists work to turn microbes into vanishing bioplastics to tackle plastic waste
https://news.cgtn.com/news/2025-07-20/Scientists-work-to-microbes-into-vanishing-bioplastics-1F9F50L3Axq/p.html
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Tetra Pak announces second AI investment site to boost sorting of food and beverage cartons
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