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(b) plastics drums and jerricans that

It is down cycled and turned into lesser things, while a glass bottle can be a glass bottle again or can be used again a plastic bottle can never be a plastic bottle again.

Such developments would encourage industry to re use or recycle more parts. Although all 40 kinds of plastics used in a North American automobile can be recycled, the need to separate and clean them makes using them more expensive than using virgin plastic resins.

Although all 40 kinds of plastics used in a North American automobile can be recycled, the need to separate and clean them makes using them more expensive than using virgin plastic resins. This translates into a higher proportion of plastics in the remnants of shredded end of life automobiles a contaminated mixture of plastics and non plastics that is usually disposed of through some combination of landfilling, incineration, and secondary recycling.

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At the end of this process, we have a mixed plastic composite many different types of plastics and many different grades of plastics.

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It's a bad thing that plastic breaks down into smaller little bits, because it's always still plastic.

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It's plastic pollution.

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He's given a little bottle massage, a little bottle medal.

Whenever possible, refuse single use and disposable plastics.

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Upon educating myself a little further about plastics, I actually realized this was a bad thing.

Each of these methods recovers a different amount of the embodied energy of the plastic item. (All of the embodied energy is lost if the plastics are landfilled, a common disposal method worldwide.)

There are four categories of plastics recycling primary recycling, in which the plastic is re used in the same application secondary recycling, in which material (mixed or contaminated) is used in less demanding applications tertiary recycling, in which the plastic is converted into monomers or chemicals and quaternary recycling, in which only energy is recovered through incineration. Each of these methods recovers a different amount of the embodied energy of the plastic item.

I'm also concerned about the plastic in the refrigerator, and I'm concerned about the plastic and the toxins that leach from plastic into us and into our bodies.

Moreover, most plastic products are made from so called petroleum based commodity thermoplastics. Given that a non renewable resource forms the basis of many plastic products most of which will not last long current plastics usage patterns are not sustainable.

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