Recycling plants may pose water contamination risks

Recycling plants may pose water contamination risks

Recycling plants’ plastic-cleaning process may pose water contamination risks, researchers report. Potentially harmful chemicals can contaminate untreated water used in recycling plants to clean plastics before they’re processed into new products, according to a new study. “We thought, ‘OK, these compounds have to be going somewhere.'” Researchers from Iowa State University’s Polymer and Food Protection Consortium tested common industrial plasti…