Learn how to recycle plastic bottles

[poojkhgf]

I've heard it goes to Macdonalds - they put it into hamburgers

[wikieditspam]

lol



[revgeorgemurray]

Caps on or off, it doesn't make a difference. It used to be at one time that yes the caps had to be off, but they had to manually take them off, now everything is ground up.

[tdawgee]

I Don't Know For Sure --- But I Have Been Told If You Dont Take The Cap Off,They Will Just Throw Out The Bottle And Not Recycle It !!! ---???

[sircesare]

this is from the 90s thats why it loos like that

[GREENZYS]

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[ashish9670]

Bio-plastics based on corn, should replace petroleum based plastics, and the latter will lead to our doom. Europeans, especially Germans are much more aware and that (awareness) is the best weapon to fight the plastic menace. PETROLEUM BASED PLASTICS POLLUTE and when a plastics engineer tells you otherwise it is economising with the truth.

[m062289]

why dont you learn about investing.

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[4plastics411com]

simple answer...recycling is good for the environment. Not a matter of whether it takes jobs...reuse creates jobs in recycling. As a plastics engineer, I support recycling. Plastics don't pollute...people do.

[shwingster1]

yeah, i would be interested also in hearing if recycling is good or bad for the environment. I saw on Penn & Teller's "Bullshit" that the only thing good for the environment to recycle is aluminum.

[tgz1000]

That's because Penn & Teller's "Bullshit" is bullshit.

[19Jappo87]

i can actually explain you all why recycling plastic bottles could be worst that don't do it:

-too many people don't sqeeze the bottles, so it's more like carry air than plastic. the ammount of fuel used to carry all this "air with little plastic" is more than the ammount used to make new bottles in large quantity.

-If everybody would squeeze their plastic waste recycle plastic object would be really helpfully for our planet.

Everithing clear?

Personally I use glass bottle, even better!

[CoXs95]

@19Jappo87 Or u can make them into really small pices

[LatteLiberal]

Selfish liberal bastated! Recycling hurts jobs because saving hurts growth. Oil companies provide the raw material for plastic and soldiers will get laid off if we dont need oil anymore. You should think about other people and jobs next time you take it upon yourself to recycle.

[mrios328]

u know you are throwing money away...

[yedaw1]

its comments like that that are so ridiculous - would you rather sit back and watch us consume ourselves into recession? Nice one

[freethisone]

we are in a recession!

[SpySuper]

u know that it actually is worse for the environment to recycle, its just to make you think you are helping

[Griffencph]

And how would it be worse? links, please?

What kinds of waste would be worse?

If you burn the bottles, they produce toxic chemicals and unusable toxic ashes. At the same time you need to pump out crude oil, refine it and make a new bottle.

Putting it to a landfill gives the same result over time, it just take many generations to get it done.

What is the environmental impact on remaking a bottle with plastics that are already designed for it? And washing and reusing glassbottles, how is that?