Sentences with phrase «types of plastic waste»

The recycling system has different settings to handle different types of plastic waste — currently just ABS and PLA plastic — though the designers say configurations for new kinds of plastic will be able to be downloaded over the Internet.

The researchers hope that further study of the worms» gut bacteria will lead to the real breakthrough for managing this type of plastic waste, which can in theory be recycled but facilities that have the capacity to do so are quite scarce.

In addition, our digital gift cards do not involve shipping or manufacturing costs and do not generate any type of plastic waste.

Not exact matches

On one hand, the tiny plastic fragments often accumulate contaminants that, if swallowed, can be passed to organisms during digestion; without forgetting the gastrointestinal obstructions, which are another of the most common problems with this type of waste.

Olazar has developed two lines, depending on the type of waste: one uses biomass; the other, plastics, tires and similar waste.

For this exhibition, Yeapanis has reduced her material choices and palette to colors found in three, regularly discarded types of material: tan - colored cardboard boxes and shipping tubes, multi-colored plastic dog waste bags, and the ivory tones of raw hand - spun wool.

First EcoDomum starts by collecting used plastic waste of any kind, then sorting it into the type that will melt without releasing toxic fumes.

The machine, called a ProtoCycler, accepts ABS and PLA plastic waste, though each batch of waste for making into new «ink» filaments must come from the same type of plastic.

Finally, waste can also refer to toxics and pollutants released from the human economy that can not in any way be absorbed or broken down by biological processes, such as many types of plastics.

The researchers combed through the industry data to compile production statistics worldwide for resins, fibres and additives and to use these to work out the types of plastics now in the environment, most of it as discarded packaging: half of all plastic output becomes waste within four years of use.