Plastics are Harder to Recycle than Glass!

Plastics are harder to recycle than glass because there are so many varying polymers in use.  Many of these polymers can not be mixed which limits the products that can be made from these recycled materials.  For glass lovers like us, this is not an issue.  Glass, unless it Pyrex, can be recycled thousands of times. 

To aid in making plastics more recyclable, a Florida company has come up with a way to create a common plastic resin from a variety of normally "non-ideal" plastics that are typically not recycled.  This could eventually provide a process that would allow these polymers to be recycled regardless of their origins.  Until such a method is available and in use everywhere, I'll stick with glass.

Read More about this process in this article on smartplanet

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