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Oct 19, 2020italian artist and designer enzo mari (1932-2020), has passed away yesterday in milan after being hospitalized at the city’s san raffaele hospital.
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Oct 18, 2020the minimalist villa is designed for a couple's new life after retirement.
Oct 17, 2020a climbing wall and nets allow the family to travel between levels without ever using the staircase.
Oct 16, 2020the scheme comprises catalan vaults, herringbone walls, and structural lattices.
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one factor that complicates plastic recycling is that many different
types of plastic are used in consumer packaging.
plastics must be sorted by type before manufacturers can
reuse it to make a new product. in order to facilitate sorting,
the plastics industry uses a numbering system to group
plastic packaging into seven general categories.
polyvinyl chloride (pvc) belongs to group #3,
which is rarely collected and recycled / it is mostly discarded.
(usually of the seven groups, only #1 PET and #2 HDPE bottles are
commonly collected and recycled into new material).
it is known that polyvinyl chloride has many harmful environmental effects
and recycling groups are concerned about pvc, because a small
amount can severely contaminate large loads of PET (#1) plastic
(pvc strongly resembles PET). if pvc is accidentally incorporated in a load
of material being processed for recycling, a release of potentially toxic
compounds can occur.
the efforts to experiment with pvc recycling that the ECVM is making,
are very interesting and a good early step. but for now..
please keep any pvc bottles you might end up with,
out of the recycling box!