Plastic

What's Accepted

Plastic numbered 1 through 7

International Paper (Salt Lake City, UT): International Paper doesn't deal with a lot of plastics, but when they get them, the plastics are sent to a plastics company in California. From there the plastic is sold to other places in the US, or abroad.
Rocky Mountain (Salt Lake City, UT): The plastic is sold to buyers in the US and abroad. Usually it's used to make more plastic, but sometimes it's used to make other products (for example, Trex decking).
Sutta (Wilmington, CA): The plastic has a high likelihood of being shipped overseas. Because of low labor costs overseas, buyers there are more likely to turn the plastic into a new product.

Every year we make enough plastic film to shrink-wrap Texas.
Americans go through 25 billion plastic bottles every year.
26 recycled PET bottles equals a polyester suit. 5 recycled PET bottles make enough fiberfill to stuff a ski jacket.
In 1988 we used 2 billion pounds of HDPE just to make bottles for household products. That's about the weight of 90,000 Honda Civics.
If every American household recycled just one out of every ten HDPE bottles they used, we'd keep 200 million pounds of the plastic out of landfills every year.
Recycling one ton of plastic saves 7.4 cubic yards of landfill space.
PET plastic can be recycled into: clothing, fiberfill for sleeping bags, toys, stuffed animals, rulers and more.