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Originally Posted by cabmando
I was having a talk with my dad about this a few days ago. He was saying the #1 plastic (water bottles and most of the containers that fruit/veggies come in) has little to no recyclable value but the #5 (I think that's what it was) has value. At a local farm drainage tile plant, they use #5 (again I think) in making plastic pots and some other things. I guess it's not so much plastic as they type of plastic that matters.
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It's also the size of the item. I listened to a report also that said sorting machines can only deal with items of certain sizes, so even if some forms of plastic are "recyclable", they don't get recycled.
There used to be a recycling center here local to me that I used before our trash company started picking up recyclables. That place was busy every weekend with people dropping stuff off. Then it closed. The guy that ran it said that there was no money in recycled materials. I don't even use the trash company's service anymore. They were charging me $12/quarter to pick up recycled stuff and probably take it to the same landfill as our trash.