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It piles up in landfills. Plastic takes a very long time to decompose. Wildlife can also get caught in some plastic shapes and get hurt or die. This is why it's important to recycle, it helps keep landfills from filling up and we can reuse our old plastic instead of having to make new plastic.

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8y ago

Collectors empty all of the recycling bins and bring the material back to the Recycling Center. After we ship them to the market, the plastic bottles are chipped into small flakes, washed, melted and turned into pellets which are sold the plastic bottle manufacturers who make new bottles or other plastic products.

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9y ago

When you throw plastics away they end up in the land field. Putting plastics in the land field is harmful to the environment.

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13y ago

It is thrown into landfills where homeless people look through it and melt the plastic down into adult toys!

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14y ago

i gets mealted down and made into another thing (E.G. another plastic bag)

They get thrown into the landfill

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14y ago

Plastic does not decompose. Do not throw away plastic. It is bad for the environment.

if you recycle it gets melted down and made into some thing alse

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13y ago

well it gets crushed lots of times and then gets burnt into other needs

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12y ago

I dont know it

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