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March 23, 2018

Israeli firm says it can turn garbage into plastic

  • UBQ says its bio-based plastic can be molded into bricks, beams, cans and construction materials — and help make landfills obsolete.
    • By ILAN BEN ZION
    Associated Press

    KIBBUTZ ZEELIM, Israel — Hawks, vultures and storks circle overhead as Christopher Sveen points at the heap of refuse rotting in the desert heat. “This is the mine of the future,” he beams.

    Sveen is chief sustainability officer at UBQ, an Israeli company that has patented a process to convert household trash, diverting waste from landfills into reusable bio-based plastic.


     
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