“Only PET (#1) bottle and HDPE (#2) bottles are recyclable in the United States so don’t put other types of plastics in the recycling bin,” says Jan Dell, a chemical engineer and founder of ...

Each week a garbage truck pulls up and workers collect the contents of your blue bin. Your mixed recycling contains lots of ...

Washington — Plastic recycling rates ... density polyethylene (HDPE), seen in milk jugs, shampoo bottles and cleaning product containers. These are numbered "1" and "2" according to a ...

Is recycling plastic just a feel-good charade ... and high-density polyethylene (HDPE), No. 2, used for milk jugs and shampoo and detergent bottles, are recycled at rates of 20.9% and 10.3% ...

“Plastic recycling is not a myth,” Leif adds. Hoffman, Leif, and MacKerron emphasize that certain types of plastic — specifically #1 PET bottles and #2 HDPE containers — can be effectively ...

[Related: How to actually recycle.] Last month ... only polyethylene terephthalate (PET) #1 and high-density polyethylene (HDPE) #2 can be claimed as recyclable materials. They are the only ...

When asked about the recycling rate of its HDPE tubes, Colgate-Palmolive said ... While HDPE tubes can be recycled with other colored No. 2 plastic, such as laundry detergent containers ...

Consulting firm says it could take 20 or 30 years for polyolefin chemical recycling processes to be as cost effective as ...

and milk jugs (HDPE) − are like oil and water: Each can be recycled through reprocessing, but they don't mix. If polyethylene and polypropylene aren't completely separated during recycling, the ...