Call your county's Department of Public Works or recycling center to determine what type of plastic to recycle and where to take it. Also call 1-800-CLEANUP for state recycling information.
Rinse and sort your plastic containers by number. Recyclable plastic often must be separated by number in order to avoid contamination as it begins the recycling process.
Recycle type 1 (PETE) and type 2 (HDPE) plastic containers at your curb, according to local instructions. Type 1 and 2 containers include some plastic bags, detergent containers, and milk, soft drink, juice, cooking oil and water bottles.
Drop off plastic grocery bags - usually type 4 (LDPE), sometimes type 2, though not always marked - at your grocery store to be recycled. Most large chain grocery stores will have bins located in the store. Types 2 and 4 can be mixed most of the time, but read the signs first to be sure. Clean out bags before recycling.
Call the Alliance of Foam Packaging Recyclers, (410) 451-8340, or visit their Web site to find a local recycling center in your area that will take foam packaging (type 6, Expanded Polystyrene or EPS). Other type 6 items such as plastic utensils will most likely need to be thrown out.
Throw out types 3 (plastic food wrap and vegetable oil bottles), 5 (yogurt containers, syrup bottles, diapers, some bags, most bottle tops and some food wrap) and 7 (layered or mixed plastic). While some of these are recyclable, the plastics industry is still in the early stages of recycling and does not recycle these in most cities unless it is through a test program.
Take caps and pump spray tops off of plastic containers unless they are marked with a number. They are often made from a type of plastic that is different from the main part of the container and generally are not recyclable.
Find out if your community requires you to remove labels from plastic containers before you recycle them.
Crush plastic containers to save space in your recycling bin.
When you recycle plastic be sure that you separate the plastic out, the little symbol on the bottle, jug, etc. that tells you what type of plastic it is, to recycle properly you should mix the numbers, most bottles are #1 so when you recycle only put #1 in the bag, if you add a #2 you jeopardize the integrity of the plastic when it is melted down, even though recycling facilities have sorters to sort the different numbers they do not always catch the mixed up plastic.
Dirty waste LDPE bags can now be recycled : http://worldoils.com/LDPE_Recycling.php
Many recycling challenges can be resolved by using a more elaborate monomer recycling process, in which a condensation polymer essentially undergoes the inverse of the polymerization reaction used to manufacture it. This yields the same mix of chemicals that formed the original polymer, which can be purified and used to synthesize new polymer chains of the same type.
We have recycling process in place but the main concern should be to reduce using plastic because
waste plastic bottles,pouches are choking water bodies,causing soil infertility.
Moreover we are unduely depending on costly crude oil to manufacture plastic,better we urgently
reduce its use.
There are many ways you can
eg
re-use your bottle of coka-cola to store water or something in it
re-use any other plastic packaging that you can. So therefore you have no pollution eg cost of bin lorries to dispose of it no air pollution.
No electric or fuel wasted to clean and turn the product into something else.
I guess thats what you mean
Better reuse plastic than recycling it.
as recycling will need energy meaning burning of fossil fuel environment will get 0.00001% polluted....
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i dont know what i m taking just reuse plastic rather recycling it.
recycle plastic
very confusing thing. query into google. this can assist!
Re-use these products in their own state.If we want to change their state then it will cause for pollution.
How to recycle plastic without causing any pollution? please Don't ignore. Suggest some good answers
difficult step. look with bing and yahoo. it can assist!
