Plastic is one of the harmful things that are seriously damaging the earth
. This material is a non decomposable item and it take years to eliminates. Even if we burn it, we cannot able to get rid from this because it emits many harmful gases that pose serious threat to the environment.
But the utility of the material made it very popular and now the situation is we cannot imagine a day without it. If you will see you will notice that it is used in every day activity, no music without plastic, and no movie without plastic. We cannot imagine a day without it. And hence in this situation plastic recycling has become the important thing to practice. Recycling synthetic waste has so many advantages.
Plastic recycling is a process in which scrap synthetic is collected from homes, industries and many other places. After that is sorted according to its category, it is noted that all kinds of synthetic is not recyclable. For instance the bottle and its lid are made up of two types of different synthetic. We can reprocess the bottle but we cannot reprocess its lid because the different chemical structure synthetic. So we have too first sort it out as per its category and then wash it properly to avoid any kinds of contamination. After that it is cut into small parts by using toll grinding service. Now its time to melt down the synthetic material to curve into new products. The new recycled product is different from the old one. The activity is now practiced on a large scale there are so many people opting this as business. Plastic recyclers buy scrap synthetic from your home and will process it further to make it usable. Here are few interesting facts about the reprocessing of synthetic.
In United States people uses two and half million bottles every hour.
A small poly bag has the ability to kill tons of water habitants. Sometimes the water animals get trapped in the small poly bags thrown in the water and then suffocate to death.
Styrofoam is also a non biodegradable substance that causes lot of problem to the environment.
Production of new synthetic material takes more power then production of recycled stuff.
It was found in the year of 2007 that around 2.3 million pounds of synthetic was reprocessed.
In the year of 2005, in United States there were around 8550 curbside programs were run.