| The growing number of plastic bottles, papers and | | | | paper is successful. It works by by compressing |
| plates has given rise to the need to recycle plastic | | | | all unsorted plastic materials together and the heat |
| and transform it to more useful items like toys. | | | | generated from the friction of the plastics rubbing |
| Plastic goes through a longer sorting process than | | | | against each other is so much such that the |
| most of other recyclable materials because it has | | | | plastics just can't afford not to blend. One major |
| to be identified by the resin identification code. If | | | | challenge that is yet to be dealt with is the |
| this is not done carefully, there are high chances | | | | energy consumption during the process. |
| that the different mixture of plastic will not mix | | | | Companies that deal with recycle of plastics |
| very well and the resulting mixture may not | | | | prefer to work with high density polythene which |
| serve any meaningful purpose. | | | | although consumes a lot of energy in terms of |
| Plastic is not only useful in its pure form but it also | | | | petroleum to produce is of high quality, very |
| serves as a source of raw material during the | | | | expensive but highly demanded the local and |
| process of recovering steel scraps. It is used to | | | | international markets. Its recycling generally means |
| produce carbon. Heat compression is a new | | | | less waste, less carbon and less sulfur dioxide. |
| technological advancement in Australia, Japan and | | | | This in return means more safety for our |
| USA that sees to it that the process to recycle | | | | environment and less resource wastage. |