Recycling these materials helps us to make…
- PET -Shirts, camping Gear, X-rays, pillows, jackets and clothes
- PE-HD – Refuse bins and bags, irrigation pipes, buckets, garden furniture, shopping bags
- PVC – Shoe soles, door mats, hoses, garden fencing, car mats, window frames
- PE-LD – Refuse bags, building film, irrigation pipes, outdoor furniture, containers
- PP – Bottles and containers, paint trays, buckets, garden furniture, crates, boxes, ropes
- PS – Hangers, foam cups, rulers, foam packaging, picture frames
- Other – Plastic lumber and custom-made products
1 – PET – Polyethylene terephthalate
Bottles:
- cooldrink,
- water,
- squashes,
- salad dressing,
- honey,
- sauce,
- peanut butter,
- oil
2 – PE-HD – High-density polyethylene
Bottles:
- milk,
- juice,
- shampoo
- detergent bottles eg. handy andy dishwashing liquid
3 – PVC – Polyvinyl chloride
Electrical cabling insulation
4 – PE-LD – Low-density polyethylene
- Frozen veggie bags,
- bread bags,
- Milk sachets
- Shopping bags
- Black bin bags
- Drink pack wrappers eg. 6 pack of beer/soft drink
- Bubblewrap
5 – PP – Polypropylene
- Yoghurt & ice cream containers
- Margarine tubs
- Medication bottles
- Plastic bowls, cups, plates (must say PP)
- Garden furniture
- Buckets
6 – PS – Polystyrene
Clean WHITE Polysterene
- White polystyrene cups & food containers
7 – O – Other
Plastic and Polysterene * Remember all dirty plastic needs to be rinsed first
- Large Bottles (3-5litres or more)
- Fruit & Veg bags – crinkly / noisy ones
- Chip packets,
- sweet wrappers,
- tea bag wrappers
- Cup-a-soup packets
- Biscuit wrappers
- Dog & cat food sachets
- Rubber (tyres and tubes)
- Washing powder bags
- Dog food bags
- Cat litter bags (plastic lined)
- Shiny-coated black and white food trays
- DVD/CD covers
- Black polystyrene
- Clear food packaging Trays (veggies and fruits)
Benefits of recycling plastic
- Recycling one ton of plastic saves 5.6 cubic meters of landfill space.
- The average time taken for a plastic bottle to decompose in a landfill is close to 700 years
- Used plastic dumped into the sea kills and destroys sea life at an estimated 1,000,000 sea animals per year