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Researchers developing renewable plastics and exploring new processes for plastics upcycling and recycling technologies will now be able to easily baseline their efforts to current manufacturing practices to understand if their efforts will save energy and reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
Benchmark data calculated and compiled at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) provide a measurement at the supply chain level of how much energy is required and the amount of greenhouse gases emitted from the production of a variety of plastics in the United States. Today, we employ a predominantly linear economy for many of the materials we use, including plastics, said Gregg Beckham, a senior research fellow at NREL. Many people and organizations around the world are looking at ways to make our materials economy circular.