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Every winter some twenty million tons of salt are dumped on America's road.That sodium chloride melts the ice, so it prevents its formatin, helping to prevent accidents. But road salt has its downside. This is not very economical because salt is main

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Cleaning and sorting plastic made out of multiple polymers can be relatively expensive, 清理和将多种聚合物制成的塑料进行分类的成本相对昂贵， especially if it is used to make low value products such as packaging. 尤其是这些

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Of all the plastic produced since the 1950s, less than 10% has been recycled. 20世纪50年代以来，产生的所有塑料中，只有不到10%得到回收。 The vast majority ends up being dumped, most of it in landfill. 其中大部分都成了垃

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