How do they find plastic which contains recycled plastic. (Plastic can only be recycled few times before its lose its properties)
Plastic recycling is mostly a scam pushed through by petrochemical companies. Their goal was to keep making more plastic, so they pushed responsibility out to the public through a massive marketing campaign.
The recycling symbols on plastic, with numbers in them? They don’t actually mean the plastic is recyclable. That’s an indicator of what type of plastic it’s made of. They say the information is to help recyclers, but there’s no way anyone can go through so much plastic and hand sort everything.
Most plastic waste still ends up in the junkyard, incinerated, or in the junkyard and then incinerated.
A lot of “recycled” plastic is recovered through corporate or industrial channels, when there are large volumes of the same type of material available.
That’s not a recycling symbol, it’s a “resin identification code”. They just make it looks like the recycling symbol to trick people.
