The United States of America Food and Drug Administration determine what sustances can be labeled able to be recycled. Before items are recycled they are searched for the symbol. For more information please visit: http://www.plasticsinfo.org
It keeps harmful materials (ex. plastics) from getting into the ocean, and being eaten by the animals.
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You could get your plastics recycled (eg, plastic bottles) by putting them in the recycling box if you have one. Then your plastics will go to the recycling place!
bio degradble plastics and recycling
European Life cycle database is the database that should be used for plastics recycling in EU. There is also a law for the recycling industry.
The purpose of having a recycling code on plastics is so that they can be tracked. Different companies want their plastics back to make more bottles for example.
There are different recycling numbers on different plastics because all plastics are different. Many recycling facilities need to separate these types of plastics because they all melt at different temperatures and can be reused for different things.
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You can separate plastics by color to make it easier for recycling companies. You can also separate it by the types of plastics.
waste and recycling
Recycling Plastics actually is not good for the enviorment. It may come as a shock, but more money is wasted and more pollution is created by recycling plastic than it would be if it was created new. There is actually more than enough materials to create new plastic in the world at the moment, so recycling plastics is a really long way from becoming nessecary.
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