
What Types of Plastic Products Can I Recycle?
What Plastic Products Can I Recycle? Plastic recycling is recovering scrap or waste plastics and reprocessing the material into useful products. Compared to glass or metallic materials, plastic poses unique challenges – because of the massive number of types of plastic, they each carry a resin identification code. They must be sorted before they can be recycled. This can be costly – while metals can be sorted using electromagnets, no such ‘easy sorting’ capability exists for plastics. In addition, while labels do not need to be removed from bottles for recycling, lids are often made from a different kind of