(Washington Post) Jim Morrison and Shoshana Kordova - UBQ Materials in Israel takes mounds of trash and sorts, grinds, chops, shreds, cleans and heats it into a sort of garbage caramel, then resurrects it as tiny pseudo-plastic pellets that can be made into everyday items like trays and packing crates. UBQ says it has succeeded where others have failed, creating a radical technology that transforms garbage into the raw materials for plastics manufacturers and earns them a profit in the end. UBQ aims to keep trash from ever going into landfills.
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