Plastic Recycling | Decoding the Numbers
Have you ever looked at the bottom of that bottle of water or milk jug and noticed a number surrounded by the circle of arrows? This is the mark of the Resin Identification Coding System, a classification system developed in 1988 to separate plastics into different recycling categories based on their composition. Read on to learn not only what these numbers signify, but also what product the container you are tossing into the recycle bin could eventually become.
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