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The numbers help the user separate incompatible plastics before placing them in the bins. For example, one piece of styrene plastic accidentally mixed into a ton of polyethylene plastic would ruin the entire batch during recycling, preventing any of the polyethylene plastic from being used and forcing it to become just ordinary garbage.

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