Plastics are used in a wide range of applications and some plastics items, such as food packaging, become waste only a short time after being purchased. Other plastic items lend themselves to be reused many times over. According to most estimates, 80% of post-consumer plastic waste is sent to landfill, 8% is incinerated and only 7% is recycled.
Since the production of plastics uses 8% of the world’s oil production, it is in our best interests to recycle plastics. In addition to reducing the amount of plastics waste requiring disposal, recycling plastic will reduce the consumption of non-renewable fossil fuels, energy, the amount of solid waste going to landfill and the amount of carbon emissions.
Post time: Jun-12-2017