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SULLIVAN: Many people remember learning to recycle plastic in school - the trash cans with the pictures and all that plastic trash. CHANG: Yeah. SULLIVAN: There were ads on television.

Matuana, holding a plant-based plastic bottle, said students and researchers are working on plastics that don't come from petroleum as well as petroleum-based monoplastics that are easier to recycle.

The amount of plastic being recycled around the world is stagnant at less than 10 percent with most new plastic still made from fossil fuels, a new study said Thursday.