recycling plastics

RECYCLING PLASTICS!

Have you ever heard of the recycling process?  Well most plastics such as bottles, containers, plastic bags, and thin plastics are made from heated oil.  These different recycled plastics have to be separated from the others because if these plastics combine then it will form a whole new thing and let out a toxic chemical that could harm animals, land, people, and poison food.

On the different types of plastics they each carry a symbol on it that is a triangle with a number in the center of it, these numbers help identify the rubbish bin they go in and what type of plastic it is.  After the plastics have been sorted they get shredded into tiny bits then bagged, next they are transported to places where they are shaped into a new product.