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
A plastic tray made from recycled polyethylene terephthalate, bearing the resin identification code 1 on its base
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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
Resin identification code
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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