Plastics recycling. A technician attends a machine which extrudes strands of melted, recycled plastic. The strands will be chopped up into pellets for

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Plastics recycling. A technician attends a machine which extrudes strands of melted, recycled plastic. The strands will be chopped up into pellets for use in industry. In addition to conserving resources, an advantage of recycling is that some plastics release toxic chemicals if they are disposed of by being burnt or by being left in landfill waste dumps.

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Photo credit: © PATRICE LATRON/EURELIOS/LOOK AT SCIENCES/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY / Alamy / Afripics
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