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An ExxonMobil spokesperson recently told ProPublica that the company’s chemical recycling process works, and that it has “processed more than 60 million pounds of plastic waste into usable raw materials, keeping it out of landfills.”

“There were a number of hospitals that were intact but not usable. That’s better than a collapsed structure. But still not what you need at a time of emergency like that.”

Tata Steel is expected to remove the last usable liquid iron from blast furnace 4 on Monday afternoon.

And the "usable operational capacity" - the total number of people a prison can hold while taking into account issues like control and security - was 89,619, leaving spare capacity of just 1,098 places.

One Long Beach group is turning dead urban trees into usable lumber, while planting new saplings and providing work for the people society has left behind.