Plastic Recycling: Pros and Cons
Advantages of Recycling Plastic Some simple and common types of plastic products can be profitable and economic to recycled – compared to other plastic types and plastic products, PET bottles can be simple and profitable to recycle in some markets. Plastic Recycling benefit: better recycle plastic with new breakthroughs in the types of plastic being produced – regular plastics usually either can’t be recycled or can only be recycled a certain number of times. Newer plastics that can be recycled many times over are in development. One example of this type of plastic is PDK plastic (poly-diketoenamine). Recycling tends to create more jobs than landfills and other options in some economies – in some cities, recycling can create up to 20 more jobs than landfill (but this is for all waste – the figures for plastic alone are not known at this stage). Plastic has a number of ways to be repurposed via recycling – different plastics can be repurposed for different applications, such as te...