Plastic Facts

Every day thousand tons of plastic is used and disposed in the form of disposable cups to thin cellular packing. Statistics say that about 85 % of these plastics are sent to landfill or dumped elsewhere. This will be a great environmental threat in the coming years. However in the underdeveloped countries and developing countries 40% of plastic is recycled and plastic recycling offers a huge employment opportunity.

Many of the things we use every day, like soda cans, and milk cartons, are made out of plastic that can be recycled. Recycled items are put through a process that makes it possible to create new products out of the materials from the old ones.

Plastic takes a long time to break down—yet only about 5% of plastic is currently being recycled.

Most of the plastic can be recycled, some more easily than others. The most commonly recyclable types of plastic are polyethylene terephthalate, also called “Plastic #1,” and high-density polyethylene, called “Plastic #2.” Plastic #1 is the type of plastic that soda bottles are made out of. Plastic #2 is the type of plastic used to make milk jugs. You can tell what kind of plastic a container is made out of by looking for a number inside the recycle symbol (usually located on the bottom of the container).

Here we have listed the types of resin and the plastic content in the products .