Is Recycled Plastic Better?
Some types of plastic can be recycled good news? Well, it probably wont be recycled into the same product as before e.g. a water bottle wont be recycled into another water bottle. It will be processed into a secondary less useable product this process is known as downcycling. This is an important fact to consider, as the materials that plastic products are made from are virgin materials. This means they do not contain any recycled content and were manufactured from newly processed plastic. In effect recycling water bottles does not reduce the use of energy and resources in the bottled water industry. Once plastic has been recycled into a secondary product, it cannot be recycled for a third and fourth time. This creates more waste than you think, as eventually the same amount of material that was produced finds its way into a landfill site, just a little delayed. So, instead of focusing your thoughts on recycling plastic, you should be focusing on how to reduce your plastic use overall
