Know your plastics!

Did you know that the numbers at the bottom of our plastic indicate the kind of plastic and how they should be recycled? We barely notice it but it is an important indicator of how each type of plastic is to be sorted for recycling. For all plastics, you can find the numbers 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, or 7 crested on them.

Let’s take you on a little ride. Pick up a beverage plastic bottle near you. Run your hands and eyes with close inspection down to the base of the container. Now scan round the base in search for an imprinted little triangle with a number in its center. Yeah! Nice one! You found it, and it is most certainly a number 1 there. This is because all plastics with this number are the same all over the world.

Now when you find the number 1, it represents the Polyethyleneterephtalate, p-e-t-e pet, for short. All our table water and soft drink bottles, ketchup containers, vegetable oil jars e.t.c are made from this type of plastic.

Although, the use of such single use-plastics is meant to be reduced. For the pete plastic, it is not quite easy to do without as it is the most widely used type of plastic. Hence, when you cannot do without a soft drink on a hot terrible day, remember that your now-empty pet bottle can be reprocessed into another soft drink, or spun into polyester fibre (for new T-shirts, carpets, and many other products of more common use)

So here's a new task for us , each time we find a plastic container at home, at the office, or on the play-ground. Let’s make the effort to find out what number it has and then look up how and what it can be transformed into in a recycling plant.

For numbers 2 through 7, Stay tuned!

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