subject: How to recycle PVC Plastic [print this page] Recycling plastic is labor intensive and costly and the process degrades plastic material, making it difficult to reuse. Researchers across the globe are struggling to solve this problem, and Manufacturing.net reports that a recent IBM/Stanford recycling breakthrough may revolutionize plastic recycling machine by 2015. Until then, the process remains difficult and only around 5% of plastic waste in the US is recycled, according to PackagingToday.com.
