Characteristics for the identification and due process of selection and delivery from the source of usable and unusable solid waste.
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Called polyethylene teleftarate or its acronym PET, its physical characteristic is transparent, mostly brown, green, or blue. It is where soft drinks, liquid medicines, bottled water come packed, where refrigerated foods such as cakes or desserts arrive, their brittle and transparent characteristic, we find the bristles of all brushes and brooms, also the sunchos with which they pack merchandise.
Most of the number 1 PET plastic is recyclable, with which they manufacture yarn for making polyester textiles and the bristles of toilet brushes and brooms.
The key to getting the pet into the recycling chain is the same golden rule!
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Called high-density polyethylene with its acronym HDPE, we find it in two presentations; the first in injection as products such as soda baskets, buckets, tanks, fruit baskets or a toy store for children.
The second is a blowing process in which the jars are manufactured as the limpid one or where they store the car oil or where the shampoo is good. , bags, pallets.
The key to entering the recycling chain is the same golden rule!
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Called polyvinyl chloride or its acronym PVC.
Its greatest characteristic is its flexibility and quality. It is the only fireproof plastic material found in some packages for cooking oil, also in tents, in marsh boots, in hoses, in medicine packages, in tiles, in electrical pipes and of water, on credit cards, would outline, traffic cones. Most of the number 3 PVC plastic is not recycled. With the exception of boots, tiles, profiling, signaling cones, tiles, with this mats or soles for shoes are made or it is again hose, or pipe or profiled, it can be tile again.
¡The key to entering the recycling chain is the same golden rule!
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Called low-density polyethylene or its acronym LDPE.
With this material bags are manufactured, all types of food packaging, greenhouse plastic, its main characteristic is its flex, despite the fact that it loses slight properties in the recovery and transformation process that are recovered with original plastic in this way. You can retrieve the material dozens of times by returning it like a bag or a watering hose. Most LDPE plastic number 4 is recycled.
¡The key to entering the recycling chain is the same golden rule!
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Called polypropylene with its initials PP.
Due to its resistance characteristics, easy manufacturing handling, its elasticity and high quality, this is the material with the highest consumption since we find it in all branches of the economy and for the most part it is recyclable, both the solid that we find in jars. , hooks, toys, chairs, tables, pallets, parts, accessories or vehicle parts, cleaning products such as brushes, the film or bag that we differentiate by its crunchy sound different from the sound of a low-density polyethylene bag. Also in the sack or tights.
Most of the number 5 PP plastic is recyclable.
¡The key to entering the recycling chain is the same golden rule!
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Called polystyrene with its initials PS.
It is found in three different presentations:
- Ps cristal: disposable spoons and knives.
- High impact ps: sheets, advertisements, napkin holders.
- Expanded ps: we find the styrofoam in; food packaging such as glasses and plates, in electronic product packaging. This being the most difficult to recycle among the three polystyrenes.
¡The key to entering the recycling chain is the same golden rule!
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Called others LA BAQUELITA it was the first commercial plastic, since the late 18th century when the processes with plastic resins began until now, hundreds of useful plastics have been created for the development of the world economy, in the development in areas such as sports, health , recreation, transportation, packaging of all kinds of products, some of them are: polycarbonate, low dielectric, nylon, celcon, ABS, cellophane, Aero Flex, (coextruded-laminated).
Actually, what the number 7 (others) indicates is that they are not easy to recycle, that is why they group hundreds of plastics of different characteristics in a single number, the (7).
All these enter a selection process and can be transformed into highly durable plastic wood with many positive properties for the environment, for this you need to know that all packaging as long as they comply with the golden rule!
Golden rule
It consists of delivering clean and dry recycling. The key is not to contaminate recycling with food or organic products, in this way:
In the green bag we must put all the organic products classified in this way: fruit or vegetable skins or remains or residues of the same which have not been cooked, also the eggshell, with this compost is made and used to fertilize plants having an excellent organic result.
In the black bag we must throw unusable waste such as: sweeps, personal hygiene waste, products smeared with oils, sauces, fats, etc. that contaminate any product that could have been recycled, bones, food scraps, the residues of any dry product.
The materials known as hazardous waste such as blades, needles, or broken or broken glass, the mouth covers, must be thrown in a red bag inside the black bag, if you do not have a red bag, put a red ribbon to make known that there may be a hazardous waste for human health.
The cooking oil: it must be clean without residues and is deposited in a bottle and delivered to the nearest disposal point, in this cooking oil in the nearest police station or police station they receive it, with this they make soaps high-quality industrial people from recyclers’ associations or organizations.
Batteries, light bulbs, or electronic devices in shopping centers there are final disposal points where recycling companies introduce it to recycling chains or give it its proper end use.
Shoes, foams, tents, advertising canvas, most toy stores, products with chemicals or highly adhering materials, balls or all Christmas products, footballs or balls, celebration pumps, cardboard or wet paper, in the tablets where the pastes come.
Recommendation if you doubt whether or not it is recycled, put it clean and dry in the white bag that there are recyclers experts in charge of selecting and introducing these materials to the economy through sustainable production processes or circular economy, it is in your hands that you educate yourself and develop with sustainable practices.