My favorite article of clothing is a fleece vest. It is warm. It launders easily. It does not pill up. And it is made from recycled plastic bottles. Thank you to those who recycled your plastic and made my vest possible.
Recycling plastic bottles is quite common in our society. I have discovered a couple of web sites I would like to share with you. The first is the Association of Postconsumer Plastic Recyclers. Here you can look at all kinds of reports. An interesting one shows that the recycling of plastic bottles reached a record high of over 2.4 BILLION pounds in 2008. WOW! That is a lot of recycling. However, the total number of pounds of recyclable plastic bottles and jars available in the United States for recycling in 2008 was 5.366 BILLION.
We are making progress. And this site will give you more information on what you can do as well as a daily recycling tip. It is worth checking out.
Another site I found took me to my state’s government environmental and natural resource page. You can find the one for your state by visiting this site. Once there, click on your state and then the title that most closely resembles something about the environment or natural resources or recycling. I found this interesting to discover what is going on in my state.
Here is a brief list of what is made from recycled plastics: motor oil bottles, detergent bottles, pipes, pails, new trash bags, pallets, carpets, fiberfill, nonfood bottles or containers. I also found information about “plastic lumber,” all types of clothing, including eco-friendly suits at Sears, and a new cell phone from Motorola. You can find more by Googeling “what is made from recycled plastic.”
By the way – you may see the term PET used when referring to recycled plastics. This, or course, does not refer to your precious pet but to “Polyethylene terephthlate,” the thermoplastic resin used in plastic containers.
So keep tossing your plastics in to the recycle bin. We ALL thank you!
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