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usually old plastics are dirty there is a lot of bacterias that are left in the plastic. by recycling the plastic, the recyclers can clean those plastic, by melting it and make a new plastic again and they reuse it back.

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Plastic needs many different kind of Natural Resources so re-using the plastic would just mean less raw materails have to be prossed so then we can make more plastic

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some newer plastics are made with bio-degradeable corn starches

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it saves the earths resources

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