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    Plastics play an important role in waste management and can be more energy efficient than alternatives like glass. Plastic recycling turns old plastics into new useful products, reducing waste and energy usage compared to manufacturing new materials from raw resources. While plastics get a bad reputation, manufacturing and transporting many plastic products actually requires less energy than alternatives. Recycling plastics captures this embedded energy and prevents further energy usage by manufacturing with new inputs.

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    Plastics play an important role in waste management and can be more energy efficient than alternatives like glass. Plastic recycling turns old plastics into new useful products, reducing waste and energy usage compared to manufacturing new materials from raw resources. While plastics get a bad reputation, manufacturing and transporting many plastic products actually requires less energy than alternatives. Recycling plastics captures this embedded energy and prevents further energy usage by manufacturing with new inputs.

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    Plastics play an important role in waste management and can be more energy efficient than alternatives like glass. Plastic recycling turns old plastics into new useful products, reducing waste and energy usage compared to manufacturing new materials from raw resources. While plastics get a bad reputation, manufacturing and transporting many plastic products actually requires less energy than alternatives. Recycling plastics captures this embedded energy and prevents further energy usage by manufacturing with new inputs.

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    Technology – Status and Role in plastics waste management

    Percentage of Plastics Used in Different Fields


    Plastics Symbol for easy identification and sorting
    Things to think about
    • Plastics are not necessarily the waste and energy culprits that
    some people think they are. Plastics can be very energy
    efficient.

    • It takes less energy to manufacture a plastic ketchup bottle than


    a glass ketchup bottle. And since plastics are lightweight, it takes
    less energy to transport a truckload of plastic ketchup bottles
    than a truckload of glass ketchup bottles.

    • Up to 40% less fuel is used to transport drinks in plastic bottles


    compared to glass bottles
    Plastic recycling is a process in which old plastics is turned into another more useful products.

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