Trend of excessive cardboard packaging.

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Albermarle said:

Although some plastics are also easy ( and economic ) to recycle ( milk 'bottles', Fizzy drink bottles etc) plastic bags/film packaging  are not. 

Only around 10% of plastic globally has ever been recycled and plastic can only be recycled a certain number of times as the polymers chains grow longer and the quality reduces, more plastic is incinerated than recycled. 

Albermarle

the_lunatic_is_in_my_head said:

Albermarle said:

Although some plastics are also easy ( and economic ) to recycle ( milk 'bottles', Fizzy drink bottles etc) plastic bags/film packaging  are not. 

Only around 10% of plastic globally has ever been recycled and plastic can only be recycled a certain number of times as the polymers chains grow longer and the quality reduces, more plastic is incinerated than recycled. 

Normally most recycled plastics, are then used in a different application from the original one, so the proportion being recycled again and again will be quite small.
For example I visited a plant that took in millions of HDPE milk bottles and made large matrix squares from them, that are used to stabilise muddy/unstable ground.