Cleaner Seas Group launches 'world-first' microplastic recycling facility

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Cleaner Seas Group launches 'world-first' microplastic recycling facility

New facility in Cornwall to recycle microplastics captured through filters and turn them into reusable materials

Cornwall-based Cleaner Seas Group (CSG) has announced it is opening a microplastics recycling facility, which it claims could save up to 86 tonnes of microplastics from polluting the ocean every year....

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