“Upcycling: Convening Waste Plastics into Paramagnetic, Conducting, Solid, Pure Carbon Microspheres.”: The recent tremendous increase in the volume of waste plastics (WP) will have a harmful environmental impact on the health of living beings. Hundreds of years are required to degrade WP in atmospheric conditions. Hence, in coming years, in addition to traditional recycling services, innovative "upcycling" processes are necessary”
Vilas Pol says “the recent tremendous increase in the volume of waste plastics (WP) will have a harmful environmental impact on the health of living beings.” In his article Upcycling: Convening Waste Plastics into Paramagnetic, Conducting, Solid, Pure Carbon Microspheres Pol states that it takes “hundreds of years… to degrade WP in atmospheric conditions.” He makes it very clear that “in addition to traditional recycling services, innovative "upcycling" processes are necessary” to reduce our waste impact on the environment. Upcycling is the act of taking waste and turning it into a useful high quality item. According to Katelin Butler “the term "upcycling" was first used in 1994, in… Germany, where recycled materials were always reconstituted rather than reused as they existed before.” This trend has become popular with the green movement and is often correlated with economic and environmental advancements. Often times it is a key component in cradle-to-cradle social and industrial systems.
The Electrochemical Energy Storage Department, Chemical Sciences & Engineering Division from Illinois illustrates the harmful effects of plastic wastes on the environment. I will use the supporting evidence of how plastic waste harms and how upcycling can eliminate that impact. The argument is that chemical waste such as plastics are harming the environment and we need to do more than recycle to stop this process. This will help shape my paper by giving me evidence that supports how reducing chemical waste we can reuse it and make it into a product. Chemicals can be mixed and changed to benefit upcycling systems; I will use this as supporting data.
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