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Unilever tears up sachet waste with new recycling technology

Hundreds of billions of plastic sachets are thrown away each year | Credit: Cory Doctorow
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Consumer goods giant unveils ground-breaking technology to recycle plastic sachets as part of strategy to make all its packaging recyclable, reusable or compostable by 2025

Unilever has today unveiled a pioneering new recycling technology it claims will eliminate mountains of waste from single-use plastic sachets.  Every year hundreds of billions of single-use plastic...

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