Don’t just chuck that jug!
Note: This following post is sponsored.
There is an increasing focus on the environment and reducing the impacts on the planet through actions such as recycling. For instance if you walk into many grocery stores such as Wal-Mart and you will see a big collection bin for recycling your plastic grocery bags that seem to multiply all around you. What happens after you recycle your items? Companies such as Raw Polymers Ltd. purchase plastic, recycle it and sell it as raw materials to others.
High Density Polyethylene is the type of plastic commonly used in your milk jugs and similar items and can be easily recycled. According to HDPE Scrap, over 60 million tons a year is produced and then just thrown away! Imagine how much landfill space could be saved if just 20% (12,000,000 tons!) were recycled and reused in the manufacturing process as raw materials. Regrind HDPE explains the process of how material goes from being big bales of plastic into HDPE regrind that can be reused into their new lives as items such as bottles and pallets.