From recent news I've read most plastic is in small thin fibres and buried
in the ocean sediment, where it causes problems for life which filters
though the detritus for food, clogging up their filters.

However, I understand that the film stuff is only bonded at the outside and
this is cropped off. Still there are lots of things that have multiple
materials in them, cassette tapes for example, and some drinks containers
which are cardboard with a silver substance glued inside.
Brian

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Just something that has been knocking about in my mind for a while.

With the current domestic recycling there are some plastics which can be
recycled and some which can't.

For example, moulded plastic food trays are marked as recyclable, but the
label often says that the plastic covering film is not.
For meats, bacon, and many other foods the covering film is sealed to the
rim of the plastic tray, so that it is virtually impossible to remove all
the film.
So the tray is recyclable but with a small amount of non-recyclable
plastic fused to the rim.

Does this render the whole thing non-recyclable, and thus destined for
land fill? Or is a small percentage of contamination acceptable? Or is
most of the stuff we put in blue bins just for show and goes to land fill
anyway?

Cheers

Dave R


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