This is a great video on how recycling and saving something small such as a plastic bottle can make a big difference and make a great change on our lifestyles!
Ordinarily, we would simply throw our plastic containers and other recyclable items into the recycling bin (and hopefully not the garbage!) only to pass the duties of the actual reuse of these items to someone else. But do we really know what our waste is being turned into? Most of the plastic we recycle can be made into recycled plastic, but this product is actually not even recyclable. The recycling process of plastics require a variety of different treatments which in turn requires massive amounts of energy when you think about how much plastic we use everyday. The United States has continually increased it's use of plastic bottles each year since the 1990's, even though the recycling rate has remained at around 27 percent. This means that only a small amount of effort is being put towards recycling all the materials we can after we use them.
We may not all be able to build houses out of our own collection of plastic bottles, but in order to keep our unusable waste amounts decreasing, and our reusable products increasing, it definitely would not hurt to pay a little more attention to the things we can recycle instead of mindlessly throwing into the garbage can for our simple convenience!
Here's also a helpful list of items that can/cannot be recycled:
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