Two-thirds of plastics recycling in the U.S. comes from common household and commercial items like bottles, shopping bags, and food containers. What accounts for the rest? And what does all that plastic become when it’s recycled? Learn more about the material that accounts for 300 million tons of production a year in this video from the Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries (ISRI):
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