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360: Recycling Plastic #5


Green Lifestyle  (tags: recycling, interesting, humans, environment, eco-friendly, conservation, food, home )

Daphna
- 61 days ago - earth911.com
Plastic #5 is more a part of your life than you make think. From your favorite vanilla yogurt to the prescription medicine bottle above your sink, polypropylene is a durable material that's perfect for packaging.
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Tierney G. (322)
Saturday October 31, 2009, 6:08 am
This program definitely needs to be stepped up. All those bottles have caps and the caps are mostly in the landfill. I am glad to see they are working on recycling for all plastics.
Thank you Daphna!
 

Past Member (0)
Saturday October 31, 2009, 12:32 pm
Thanks, Daphna! This is a wonderful idea. I've noted, signed, and forwarded.
 

Mari Basque (1243)
Saturday October 31, 2009, 12:38 pm

It is way more a part of our life than we think. I try to buy as little plastic as I can. It seams even the Eco friendly laundry det and dish soap is also all in plastic here. We should be allowed to go re-fill our bottles at the store instead of buying MORE plastic.

I love using the green eco friendly products but they kill it buy selling it in plastic. What's inside the bottles might be green and eco friendly but the bottle sure is not. All of this going endlessly into the earth:(

Happy to see a story like this at Care2 news it's way over do!

 

Lyn C. (29)
Saturday October 31, 2009, 8:03 pm
Godd to hear some possibly new green news regarding plastics and recycling. I hate like anything, to throw out a plastic container which so like a #1 or #2. Whenever possible I try to reuse the unrecyclable plastics. It always seemed like a waste to be able to recycle a bottle and have to throw away the cap, so I'm going to look into their program.

Lync
 

Daniel Barker (2)
Saturday October 31, 2009, 10:53 pm
Idea - make everything #1, #2 and #4. Then we can recycle it. Our Publix takes styrofoam, #6.

Then nothing would be #3 or #5.



 

Chaz Gaily Berlusconi (266)
Sunday November 1, 2009, 2:37 am
Thanxxx they should promote on these packagesmore uses for when the contents are finished.... this would be great
 

Bruce Anderson (30)
Sunday November 1, 2009, 2:48 pm
On a technical, but also practicle note, any plastic can be recycled. Why we are lagging in this with our recycling centers, I don't know...

Even a potpouri of many plastics can be melted down and molded to form pallets, trash cans, anything where the cosmetics of a color isn't necessary.

Still though, you have got to get the individual person, community, county, state and nation to recycle. With plastic bottles clearly known by most that they are recyclable material, far more of the bottles are simply tossed...
 
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