Plastic recycling is the processing of plastic waste into other products. Recycling can reduce dependence on landfills, conserve resources and protect the environment from plastic pollution and greenh
Girl Scouts on a Keep America Beautiful cleanup in 1970. The Keep American Beautiful campaign was a greenwashing campaign by the plastics and other polluting industries founded in the 1970s to try to displace responsibility of plastic pollution and other disposable packing trash onto consumers as "littering".
Bales of colour-sorted PET bottles (blues, clear and greens) Olomouc, the Czech Republic
Mixed PET bottles crushed into a bale
An advanced recycling plant using optical separation
Plastics are a wide range of synthetic or semisynthetic materials composed primarily of polymers. Their defining characteristic, plasticity, allows them to be molded, extruded, or pressed into a diver
Plastic recycling
…products. More than half of U.S. states have enacted laws that require plastic products be identifiable. The seven codes include six for the most common commodity plastics and one as a catch-all. The EU maintains a similar nine-code list that also includes ABS and polyamides. RICs are not particularly important for…
Household items made of various types of plastics
The plastic handle of a kitchen utensil, deformed by heat. This behavior, in which the plastic resolidifies in a new shape after melting, is characteristic of thermoplastics.
A Slovnaft facility in Bratislava, Slovakia
A SOCAR Polymer polypropylene plant in Sumgayit, Azerbaijan