They could technically be recycled, there just isn't a market for them.
The market for type 1 and 2 aren't always there either, the public's focus on recycling has just been in collection bins so the result has been a fee service for recycling pickup, another charge for disposal. The result has been a glut of recyclables and when the market prices are low due to the glut, the recyclables are disposed of in the landfill. If you were really interested in recycling, you would purchase products made with recycled material, if there were enough of a demand, they would pick them out of the trash instead of charging you for the pickup.
Yes. You may be able to find some market that will take the not recyclable plastic and use it for work or reuse for some type of special market like they used used tires for playgrounds
Plastics can be thinned out and mixed with latex to create more rubbers and condoms. This is very useful. I want to use one ;)
Yes.that is true.
I've watched environmental documentaries where they say that only plastics with the numbers 1 and 2 are recyclable. And that all the other types of plastics are thrown away or shipped to another country to be used by people who are too poor to buy containers to put things in. Is this true? Most plastics are just thrown away or re-used by poor people in other countries? Only types 1 and 2 actually get recycled?
