Sustainable ways to create new plastics (IMAGE)

University of Delaware

Sustainable ways to create new plastics

Caption

This graphic illustrates the flow of a "circular economy," as opposed to the "linear economy" of the U.S. In a circular economy, products are produced, consumed and reused so that there is little or no waste leftover during any of those processes.

Credit

Image courtesy of Dionisios Vlachos

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