Plastic Waste Recycling
Plastic Waste Recycling Organization
The urgency for plastic recycling, as well as scope of the opportunity, is fueled in large part by the dramatic growth of the plastics industry. In the years between 1950 and 2009, on average, the industry grew at a rate of nine percent, and is expected to track a similar level of expansion in the future. With this proliferation, the need to effectively recycle this material and keep it out of landfills has been magnified. In fact, while plastic comprised less than one percent of municipal solid waste in 1960, by the first decade of the 2000s it had reached double figures.
The plastic recycling industry has continued to expand as well, and provides many benefits environmentally as well as to the economy. One good reason to recycle plastic is that there is just so much of it.
Plastics are used to manufacture an incredible number of products we use every day, such as beverage and food containers, trash bags and grocery bags, plastic cups and utensils, children’s toys and diapers, and bottles for everything from mouthwash and shampoo to glass cleaner and dish washing liquid. And that’s not even counting all the plastic that goes into furniture, appliances, computers and automobiles.
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