What can be made out of recycled products?
Recycling things is great, but in order to close the loop, we’ve got to be getting our hands on the end products. In our recycling enthusiasm, what have we been turning things into? Let’s have a look at how and what we’ve made out of rubbish that would otherwise be clogging up a landfill somewhere:
PaperWhen used paper is sent to be recycled into is turned in 'pulp'. The pulp will then be used to make something else...
PlasticWhilst technologies have been developed for sorting plastics, in the UK most sorting for recycling is done by trained...
Degradable plasticsRecently, a number of retailers have introduced degradable carrier bags to their stores.
GlassOnce at the recycling factory, the glass is dropped into a machine which smashes it up and grinds it down into little tiny...
Steel & AluminiumThe people at the recycling plants receive bales of used cans and scrap, which they melt (steel cans are coated with tin,...
