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P&G technology restores recycled polypropylene plastics to "virgin-like" quality

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By: TOM BRANNA

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P&G is giving new life to old polypropylene. Procter & Gamble and PureCycle Technologies held a ribbon-cutting for a plant that will use a P&G-invented technology with the potential to revolutionize plastics recycling. P&G scientists figured out a way to restore recycled polypropylene plastics to “virgin-like” quality. The plan was born when Dr. John Layman, a senior scientist in P&G’s R&D division at the time, was given the task to increase the amo...

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