Plastic recycling
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Plastic recycling is the process of recovering scrap or waste plastic and reprocessing the material into useful products. Since the majority of plastic is non-biodegradable, recycling is a part of global efforts to reduce plastic in the waste stream, especially the approximately 8 million metric tonnes of waste plastic that enters the Earth's ocean every year.
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See also
- Baler
- Bisphenol A article on "BPA", esp. relevant to types 3 & 7 plastics
- Economics of plastics processing
- Glass recycling
- Microplastics
- Phase-out of lightweight plastic bags
- Plastics 2020 Challenge
- Reuse of bottles
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