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Promoting Circular Economy Around Plastic Waste: A New Design of Recycled Plastic Shredder
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Researchers designed and built a plastic shredder for the MAREA Plastic project to support circular economy goals, creating a university–community bridge for recovering and processing waste plastic into recyclable material at a local scale.
The development and construction of the plastic shredder presented here is part of the MAREA Plastic project, which aims to be a meeting point between the university community and society, through science and technology. The project’s main goal consists in...
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