Plastic recycling
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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
Resin identification code
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A resin identification code is a symbol embedded on plastic products, used to sort plastic waste for recycling. They consist of an equilateral triangle with a number inside indicating the product's re
Plastic recycling
…collection programmes and lobbied U.S. states to require the labelling of plastic containers and products with recycling symbols. The industry introduced resin identification codes in 1988, which provided a standard system for the identification of various polymer types at materials recovery facilities. Globalisation during the…
A plastic tray made from recycled polyethylene terephthalate, bearing the resin identification code 1 on its base
Plastic household items
Plastic objects