- These properties make them super useful for toys, sports equipment, auto body parts and water bottles.
- However, this also means that they do not decompose in the environment.
- These properties make plastics fantastic to store food and chemicals in containers that won’t corrode or break when dropped.
- However, this also means that they are more difficult to recycle than glass or metal objects.
- Recyclability is based on how easily something can changed into something useful.
- Glass and metals can be melted and easily reformed back into glass.
- Paper and be shredded into pulp and reformed back into paper.
- And while it seems that plastics should just be meltable back into plastics, that is not true for all types….
What’s next?
I’m lost😱
I need some background information:
I need practice 🤔
I want to test my knowledge
Let’s move on👍
Good grief, how else do Fossil Fuels negatively impact the environment?