continues to recycle industrial plastic waste by the ton. Like other companies in their industry, Seraphim relies on a rudimentary mechanical recycling process to turn plastic pallets, buckets, dunnage trays, etc. into a regrind material that can be mixed with virgin plastic for new manufacturing.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n
Seraphim’s process is not nearly as sexy or complex as the Virginia Tech process. But both processes turn plastic waste into usable products. That is the way to go if we are serious about reducing plastic pollution. Forget banning straws and garbage bags. Instead, let us find a way to put all that plastic to use.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n
Solving Our Own Problems<\/b><\/h2>\n
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Humanity has a history of solving its own problems given enough time. It seems to me that we are on the cusp of multiple breakthroughs that could put a serious dent in plastic pollution. Let us not abandon those breakthroughs in favor of shortsighted bans that will not actually accomplish anything meaningful. The best way to reduce plastic waste is to find ways to turn that waste into usable products.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Plastic is never going away regardless of the number of city councils and state lawmakers […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":988,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getacidic.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/987"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getacidic.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getacidic.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getacidic.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getacidic.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=987"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.getacidic.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/987\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":990,"href":"https:\/\/www.getacidic.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/987\/revisions\/990"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getacidic.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/988"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getacidic.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getacidic.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getacidic.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}