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2. Plastic recycling - Wikipedia

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   Plastic recycling is the processing of plastic waste into other products. [1] [2] [3] Recycling can reduce dependence on landfill, conserve resources and protect the environment from plastic pollution and greenhouse gas emissions. [4] [5] Recycling rates lag behind those of other recoverable materials, such as aluminium, glass and paper.

3. What plastics can you recycle? Here’s a handy list - AOL

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   Bottles and jugs marked with recycling symbols 1 and 2 are usually recyclable. Plastics marked 3, 4, 6 or 7 are seldom recycled. A new report from Greenpeace finds that as little as 5 percent of ...

4. Recycling - Wikipedia

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   The recycling code for plastics was introduced in 1988 by the plastics industry through the Society of the Plastics Industry. [89] Because municipal recycling programs traditionally have targeted packaging—primarily bottles and containers—the resin coding system offered a means of identifying the resin content of bottles and containers ...

5. Recycling by material - Wikipedia

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   Plastic recycling is the processing of plastic waste into other products. [19] [20] [21] Recycling can reduce dependence on landfill, conserve resources and protect the environment from plastic pollution and greenhouse gas emissions. [22] [23] Recycling rates lag behind those of other recoverable materials, such as aluminium, glass and paper.

6. Bottle recycling - Wikipedia

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   The industry of bottle and general plastic recycling utilizes audits as a way of ensuring practices are sustainable and that integrity for worker safety and health is upheld. In some countries, like Pakistan, Cleaner Production Assessments (CPs) exist. [16] CPs analyze the activity taking place and assign a certain risk type to the process.

7. Microplastics are choking our waters. Could a sponge ... - AOL

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   “Even under a variety of policies, including plastic product reduction, waste management, and environmental recycling, microplastic pollution is irreversible and escalating.” The microplastics ...

8. Your black plastic kitchen utensils aren't so toxic after all ...

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   800-290-4726 more ways to reach us. Sign in. Mail. 24/7 Help. ... Recovering resources such as metals, plastics and glass through recycling used a fraction of the energy needed to mine new materials.

9. Zero waste - Wikipedia

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   In US states with recycling incentives, there is constant local pressure to inflate recycling statistics. Recycling has been separated from the concept of zero waste. One example of this is the computer industry where worldwide millions of PC's are disposed of as electronic waste each year in 2016 44.7 million metric tons [ 24 ] of electronic ...