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Inside Eastman’s moonshot goal for endlessly circular plastics

GreenBiz

Polyester renewal technology , or PRT, which involves taking waste polyesters from landfills and other waste streams and transforming them back into a raw material that the company claims is indistinguishable from polyester produced from fossil-fuel feedstocks. But they aren’t intended simply to displace mechanical recycling.

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Inside Eastman's moonshot goal for endlessly circular plastics

Business Green

Polyester renewal technology , or PRT, which involves taking waste polyesters from landfills and other waste streams and transforming them back into a raw material that the company claims is indistinguishable from polyester produced from fossil-fuel feedstocks. But they aren't intended simply to displace mechanical recycling.

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Fifty Shades of Greta

Green Market Oracle

She says if world leaders are serious about combating the climate crisis they can "help us stop the fossil fuel industry and protect indigenous people in the Amazon, because those are the people who have been protecting the world’s rainforest for a very long time now." Howey Ou is from Guilin, China. Disaster will come from inaction.