Is Recycling A Fraud, by Chaz Miller, Waste 360 Over the last few years, recycling has been subject to a barrage of bad press. First it was the bad markets caused largely by the Chinese decision to ban the imports...
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Category: Plastics
Find a Way to Contribute and Celebrate Earth Day With Us
At Polly Products, we make it our mission to use sustainable business practices and provide eco-friendly products to help protect the environment. And as Earth Day is almost here, we thought we’d talk a bit more about the importance of...
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U.S. Top Contributor to Plastic Waste
There is no denying that climate change and pollution are major issues. For years now, experts have been warning individuals, governments, and organizations of the negative and potentially irreversible effects humans are having on the planet. And we have now...
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How Milk Jugs Become Park Benches
Of all the problems with pollution and climate change concerns, plastic waste is one of the biggest issues. Around 35.7 million tons of plastic products are generated each year in the U.S., but only a small percentage of those products...
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Plastics By The Numbers: What Does It All Mean?
Most people by now are familiar with the symbol for recycling—the triangle made of three arrows. However, what many still don’t comprehend are the numbers that you see in the middle of the triangle on plastics. Most just assume that...
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We Use Recycled HDPE: What Is It and Why Do We Use It?
We Use Recycled HDPE: What Is It and Why Do We Use It? Plastic waste is one of the primary sources of pollution in the world. Every year, tons of plastic items get thrown out and end up in landfills...
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The Benefits of Purchasing Recycled Plastic Products
Purchasing products made of recycled plastics is now more important than ever. When single-use and disposable plastics were first produced in the 1950s, it was only in small, manageable amounts. Today, nearly 300 million tons of plastic waste are produced...
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How You Can Help the US Plastic Recycling Industry
Some of us need a nudge before we’ll take action. The collective of recycling proponents and industry leaders got that when China implemented their National Sword campaign, which banned imported scrap plastics that didn’t meet their new, stringent contamination standards....
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