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Are the plastics treated as they deserve?

[Translate to English:] Salzburg Kunststoff

The latest issue of ÖWAV - Austrian Water and Waste Management Association is dedicated to a topic that is more important than ever in today's world: plastics. Despite their versatile applications, they are often perceived negatively - from low recycling rates to microplastics and littering.

In his editorial, Helmut Rechberger shows how we often make suboptimal decisions and use plastics where they are not useful, and that many once useful plastics remain in the environment.

What does the ideal management of plastics look like? In ÖWAV - Austrian Water and Waste Management Association you can read about problematic recycling rates, unclean cycles, annoying PVC and thermal composite systems, chemical recycling, cotton and polyester, contaminated fermentation residues, and unfortunately unavoidable election posters.

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