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Plastics

BIRD takes any rigid plastics with a triangle and a recycling number.

Milk jugs - are made from semi-transparent #2 plastic. It is a high value plastic which makes money for BIRD, which is why we separate it from the mixed plastics. It is recycled into buckets and pails etc.

The energy conserved by recycling just one plastic bottle can power a computer for 25 min or light a 60W bulb for up to 6 hours. Plastic production uses 8% of the world's oil production, 4% as  feedstock to make plastic resins and 4% during the manufacturing process.  

Recycled soda bottles can be spun to make fiber filling for pillows, quilts and jackets.

Five recycled soft drink bottles make enough fiberfill for a man's ski jacket. Thirty-six recycled bottles can make one square yard of carpet.

HDPE (detergent bottles, milk jugs, plastic yogurt containers) can be recycled into plastic pipes, plastic lumber, flowerpots, trash cans, or bottles used for non-food applications (eg. soaps).

Plastic not only adds to landfill space and takes forever to decompose. Used plastic can end up in the sea where it destroys sea life at an estimated 1,000,000 sea creatures per year! In the North Pacific gyre there are now 40 particles of plastic to every piece of plankton.

Plastic Bages
Styrofoam
Ridged Plastics
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