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Waste Plastic Liability to Sustainability

By: Staff Reporter

The environmental challenges thrown up by non-biodegradable polyethylene bags, bottles and other materials call for urgent recycling solutions. Widely used plastics can take more than 400 to 1000 years to completely decompose. To solve the issue of aggravating plastic waste, National Physical Laboratory (NPL) has developed an innovative technology to fashion plastic tiles out of refuse. The technology offers a sustainable solution to the long battle of plastic waste management....

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