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If they’re lucky, they get a second life as a usable item made by L.A.-based upcycler Rewilder.

Some of the sites are quite vulnerable, and, though Iran could enrich enough uranium to build a bomb in a matter of weeks, it would take them at least another year to mold that uranium into a usable weapon.

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.”

One of the issues the researchers will look at is a lack of testable and usable biomarkers, which are the tiny molecules which can tell doctors whether someone is likely to benefit from a given drug.