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Benefits to Recycling Plastic:
Recycling one ton of plastic saves 7.4 cubic yards of landfill space.
According to the EPA recycling a single pound of PET plastic bottles
saves about 12,000 BTU's of heat energy.
Plastic...The Remix
Once plastic containers reach the recycling facility they are
sorted by type (PET, HDPE, LDPE, PVC,PP). The bottles are then washed and
granulated into flakes. The flakes are allowed to dry before they
are made into new products. Recycled plastics are used for such
items as new bottles and containers, carpeting, fiberfill for pillows,
sleeping bags, ski jackets, clothing, auto parts and floor tiles.
Plastic Container Recycling Facts and Figures
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PET from the grocery store to your closet? May
sound like and odd idea but it is true! It takes about five plastic
bottles to make enough fiber filling for a ski coat, 25 recycled
bottles to make a fleece coat, or 26 bottles to make a polyester
suite. |
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If every American household recycled just one out of every
ten HDPE bottles used, it would keep 200 million pounds of
plastic out of landfills. |
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Think throwing out a plastic bottle will make it go away?
A plastic bottle will take 700 years before it will even start to decompose. |
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Americans use four million plastic bottles every hour, but
only one quarter of them will be recycled. |
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Enough plastic wrap is used every year in the US to cover
the entire state of Texas. |
For more information regarding plastic types check out
the following Help Info pages:
PET, HDPE, LDPE, PVC,PP
The information on this page is a compilation of data from the following sites:
For more information on Plastic Recycling:
www.bottlesandcans.com
www.plasticresources.com
www.napcor.com
Also See SKS's Selection of Plastic
Containers
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