{"id":397,"date":"2017-03-13T14:42:27","date_gmt":"2017-03-13T18:42:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/semba\/?p=397"},"modified":"2017-03-14T20:44:17","modified_gmt":"2017-03-15T00:44:17","slug":"from-the-web-breakthroughs-in-eps-pe-pp-recycling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/2017\/03\/13\/from-the-web-breakthroughs-in-eps-pe-pp-recycling\/","title":{"rendered":"From the Web: Breakthroughs in EPS, PE, PP Recycling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-398\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/semba\/files\/2017\/03\/Screen-Shot-2017-03-11-at-4.50.28-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1262\" height=\"584\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/files\/2017\/03\/Screen-Shot-2017-03-11-at-4.50.28-PM.png 1262w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/files\/2017\/03\/Screen-Shot-2017-03-11-at-4.50.28-PM-300x139.png 300w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/files\/2017\/03\/Screen-Shot-2017-03-11-at-4.50.28-PM-768x355.png 768w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/files\/2017\/03\/Screen-Shot-2017-03-11-at-4.50.28-PM-1024x474.png 1024w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/files\/2017\/03\/Screen-Shot-2017-03-11-at-4.50.28-PM-500x231.png 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Only 2 percent of the 78 million tons of plastic used each year for packaging\u00a0is actually recycled. The remaining 98 percent finds its way into landfills, incineration plants and the environment. New innovations and initiatives from across the U.S. and Canada, however, are offering new solutions to tackle the ever-growing plastics problem.<\/p>\n<p>Part of the problem lies within product composition: Currently, polyethylene (PE) and polypropylene (PP) \u2014 which comprise the majority of the world\u2019s plastics \u2014 cannot be repurposed together. But\u00a0<strong>Geoffrey Coates<\/strong>, professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology at\u00a0<strong>Tisch University<\/strong>, and a team of researchers from the\u00a0<strong>University of Minnesota<\/strong>\u00a0may have found a solution.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sustainablebrands.com\/news_and_views\/chemistry_materials\/libby_maccarthy\/trending_breakthroughs_eps_pe_pp_recycling_bring_\">Learn more<\/a> <em>(via Sustainable Brands)<\/em> &gt;&gt;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Only 2 percent of the 78 million tons of plastic used each year for packaging\u00a0is actually recycled. The remaining 98 percent finds its way into landfills, incineration plants and the environment. New innovations and initiatives from across the U.S. and Canada, however, are offering new solutions to tackle the ever-growing plastics problem. Part of the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/2017\/03\/13\/from-the-web-breakthroughs-in-eps-pe-pp-recycling\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;From the Web: Breakthroughs in EPS, PE, PP Recycling&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3919,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[221,427000,425248,425622],"tags":[41478,4433],"class_list":["post-397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","category-from-the-web","category-green-leap","category-renewables","tag-innovation","tag-sustainability"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8b9n0-6p","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3919"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=397"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":409,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397\/revisions\/409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}