Is plastic really recyclable?
Chemistry For Your Life
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The Basics of Recycling
Chemists design plastic to be sturdy and really last a long time. So breaking them down is not as easy as we want it to be. All the different types of plastic make this harder because if you have one material to work with, that's going to be a lot easier. If you melt down three or four different types of polymers and try to bring them together, then you've got a whole mix which isn't very good.
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