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Can Plastics Be Turned Into Oil?

January 15, 2019 | 130 views

The world has a plastic problem. Too much of the material is ending up in our environment, and recently microplastics were even found in humans for the first time. There’s a growing movement to curtail our use of the material, but what should we do with what we already have? According to Let’s Recycle, there are a growing number of companies exploring the possibility of recycling plastics into oil.

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