What is the impact of recycling plastic on our environment?

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Recycling plastic is better than throwing it away, but the current system has a some problems. The first is that when plastic is recycled, it is shredded and reconstituted into a lower grade of plastic that has limited uses, such as park benches and jackets and after that they cannot be recycled again. The other problem is that a lot of recycled plastics are PET and when it is used in objects that have long life expectancy such as jackets and benches the plastic can fray and create airborne particles. These particles can cause serious lung and throat irritations so it is best to avoid recycled plastics in enclosed environments. There are several groups working on improving plastic recycling so that it maintains its quality and can be reused again and again, but it is still a few years away. 67% 2 Votes

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• there are great impact of recycling in our environment. but not much.. but at lease a little bit. 0% 0 Votes
• I%26#039;ve seen park benches made with recycled plastic. A few trees were spared cutting for awhile. I have a jacket made from soda bottles, so a sheep stayed warm for a while longer too. 33% 1 Vote
• great impact ---just think of all those land fills with plastic bottles that will be there for years---better to recycle and use highly concentrated products to use less plastic fo more info
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• it will all ways have an inpact in some way if you keep doing
  it will have a grater inpact 0% 0 Votes
• first of all plastic can take millions of years to dissolve in the environment. I know theres more but I forgot. 0% 0 Votes
• After 50 years people will cry for plastic. It is better to conserve right now through recycling 0% 0 Votes