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What happens to plastic bottles when you recycle them? Do they get made into fresh bottles, or do they become something else? This week on Reactions, learn why it's easier to turn bottles into workout shirts than it is to fully recycle the plastic.
Sources:
- Recycling Plastics
- How Plastic Recycling Equipment Works
- The Violent Afterlife of a Recycled Plastic Bottle
- Plastics recycling: challenges and opportunities
- Recycling of polymers: a review.
- How Plastic Bottles Are Recycled Into Polyester
- Chemical Recycling of Poly(ethylene terephthalate)
- Polyethylene terephthalate
- Polyesters
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