Recycling Plastic: Its Not Just About Water Bottles
About a decade too late, Israeli’s are finally starting to understand the importance of recycling. This is most obviously seen by the recycling bins that have been popping up in the streets of Tel-Aviv (where I live.)
Unfortunately, most of these bins seem to be filled with mostly water bottles, so I wanted to point out a few other things that (believe it or not) ARE made of plastic and SHOULD be recycled as well:
- plastic cups AND straws (usually sold at coffee shops: ice coffee, milk shakes, fruit shakes, juices, etc…)
- plastic boxes, forks, knives, spoons (especially from take-out and food ordered in at the office or at home)
- plastic lids (usually found on top of paper coffee cups)
- plastic beauty products (shampoo, conditioner, liquid soap, hair products, body lotions, nail polish remover, deodorant, etc…)
- plastic cleaning products (laundry detergent, almost ALL cleaning materials, liquids and sprays)
- plastic food packaging (almost ALL cheeses, yogurts, ketchup, mayo, puddings, syrups, etc…)
- plastic trays INSIDE food packaging (for example, the plastic trays inside cookie boxes or frozen foods, etc…)
Of course, there are many more places we can find plastic right under our noses. If you can think of any, please comment and add them below. Oh, and recycle, recycle. recycle! Thanks!
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